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Title: Oriental rugs, antique and modern
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Hawley, W. A. (Walter Augustus), 1863-1920
Subjects: Rugs, Oriental
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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s; but they frequently possess rich, pure tones,which are no longer seen in the modern rugs. As even a partialexpression of the thoughts and feelings of a people, there are norugs from the Orient more worthy of study than the rare old pieceswoven by nomadic tribes. Not only physical environment but the conquests of foreignenemies, as well *as political struggles at home, have had an im-portant influence on all art. It will be of interest, therefore, tobriefly review the histories of Central and Southwestern Asia,where rugs have been made for over three thousand years, in orderto understand the different racial influences which have affectedtheir artistic development. In the rich valleys near the mouths of the Tigris and Euphratesdwelt in the remote past a race of unknown origin called Sumerians,and to the north of them lived another people known as the Ac-cadians. These races built canals, cultivated the soil, establishedtowns, and invented the cuneiform writing. They lived in harmony
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