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This new exhibition focuses on the persisting nature of textiles and ornaments in Central Asian history and contemporary art
There’s a Central Asian tradition pre-dating the spread of Islam to the region which entails filling a triangular fabric pouch with soil from a child’s birthplace, and leaving it with the child for protection until they become an adult. The custom was born when Tengriism, a polytheistic Turkic mythological belief system characterised by an adherence to shamanism and animism, was prevalent.
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