Prayer rug - arch at one end orients the rug in a single direction. This prayer niche or mihrab is probably adapted from mosque architecture.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Konia, Central Anatolia region, Turkey
Verbatim coll. place:
Turkey; Anatolia, Konia
Culture or time period:
Turkish people
Collector:
H. Ephraim Benguiat
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Wool (textile) (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Prayer rugs
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Production date:
early 19th century
Accession date:
1920
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 61 inches and width 43 inches
Loans:
S1988-1989 #39: Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (April 12, 1989–April 14, 1989), S1991-1992 #18: Hood Museum of Art (January 17, 1992–unknown), and S2015-2016 #2: Berkeley Art Museum (February 18, 2015–June 7, 2016)