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Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan–
Magic Symbols in Silk, Stone, Wood and Flesh

Robert Chenciner, Gabib Ismailov & Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov

Paperback - 1-898948-81-X - £19.99
96pp. Illustrated throughout in colour.
(Published May 2006)

On the southernmost border of the Russian Federation lies Daghestan ­ a land of ancient villages perched among the Great Caucasus Mountains by the shores of the Caspian Sea. Beneath this rural Islamic society, animist tattoos on women and decoration on ritual spoon boxes share symbols that are believed to protect the hearth and the family. Three experts have recorded this fascinating system of folk medicine, allowing the women¹s own voices to reveal the living vocabulary of this hidden body language. The result provides a key to the symbols that adorn spoon boxes and other original objects found in Daghestan ­ as well as throughout the carpet world. More than 140 colour images and 180 specially drawn tattoos illustrate this unique vanishing tradition.

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