CONTENTS ISSUE 151 SPRING 2007

58 Masks were made by men and stored in the ceremonial men’s house

90The Vakıflar collections are renowned for their large and important holdings of early and antique Turkish carpets and kilims

138 The importance of this exhibition and catalogue cannot be overstated

FRONTLINES

LETTERS Josephine Powell remembered

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NEWS New York Asia Week; Oceanic and Indonesian art sale at Kunsthandel Klefisch, Cologne 39 ENEWS A summary of the best on www.hali.com and the rest of the web 41 FRAGMENTS Tapestry in Maastrict; Freud’s carpets; World Handmade Carpet Organisation 43 PROFILE The rich life of Ottoman art doyenne Nurhan Atasoy 44 FROM THE ARCHIVE The first public kilim exhibition of 1957 and organiser Firuzan Belik 49 FORUM Hadi Maktabi demonstrates the worth of Oxford’s Beattie Archive 54

FEATURES

THE BRONZE WEAVER 57

SUSAN SCOLLAY

An important 6th century Indonesian sculpture purchased by the National Gallery of Australia is

revealed and discussed with the Gallery’s Asian Art Curator Robyn Maxwell

PLAITED, COILED, TWINED AND LOOPED

New Guinea Fibre Masterworks

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JILL D’ALESSANDRO & CHRISTINA HELLMICH

A selection of the 3,000 objects that make up the Jolika Collection of New Guinea art at the de Young

Museum in San Francisco illustrates not only the astonishing techniques and materials used to generate

these sacred objects but also the collecting nous of Marcia and John Friede

THE MYSTERY UNRAVELLED

Part Two: Knotted-Pile Saddlebags

ANN NICHOLAS & RICHARD BLUMENTHAL

Extending their discussion of South Persian nomadic bags in HALI 150, the authors examine the

vexed question of the use of pile-woven saddlebags through a series of revealing photographs

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BESHIR PRAYER RUGS

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RALPH KAFFEL

With diverse design influences from Persia and Turkey to China, Beshir prayer rugs are unlike all other

Turkmen knotted-pile weavings: a systematic classification and discussion

COTTON CONNECTIONS 84

DANIEL SHAFFER

A perspective on the little-known Katoen Natie Collection, a treasure trove of ancient textiles from

the Near East and Central Asia in Antwerp, and the serious application of science

STRONG FOUNDATIONS

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ANTHONY HAZLEDINE

The welcome roll-out of regional Vakıflar Museums in Turkey begins with the relaunch of the Istanbul

Carpet and Kilim collections for ICOC, then moves to Vakıflar HQ in Ankara and out into the provinces

over the next year

CONTEXT

ICOC PREVIEW A second look at the activities in Istanbul this April: Private collections;

Dealers’ fair; Dealers’ individual shows; An insiders’ guide

EXHIBITIONS Toraja cloths in Fukuoka City; ‘Mantles of Merit’ and tent bands at the TM;

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Tropenmuseum exhibits beautiful beads; Indian and Pakistan embroideries in Toronto

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FAIRS The Caskey Lees fairs inSan Francisco; Textile art in Bergamo

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AUCTIONS Jack Lenor Larsen’s private collection; Vojtech Blau’s rugs at Sotheby’s NY 154 AUCTIONPRICEGUIDE New York & Philadelphia December sales 159 CALENDAR Auctions, exhibitions, fairs and conferences 172 BOOKS Riggisberger Berichte 9 & 13; Souvenir of Istanbul; The Keiko Kusakabe Collection.

Textiles from Sulawesi in Indonesia; Basketry.A World Guide to Traditional Techniques

PARTING SHOTS Ruggie events in Bergamo, Istanbul, Berlin and San Francisco

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FIRST VIEW An unusual 17th century central Anatolian rug fragment from the TIEM, Istanbul 192

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