Rare Antique Museum Quality Carved Stone Bowl from the Swat Valley,Pakistan old navajo rugs Tye natural indentations on the

Tye natural indentations on the surface of the stool and on the lip of the rim show the carver made this for his own use

symmetry and colour

crawling to escape his foster mother Yasodha

Very few of these rugs survived as they were used as packaging material or harshly in the floor

Rare Antique Museum Quality Carved Stone Bowl from the Swat Valley,Pakistan old navajo rugs Tye natural indentations on theIn the beautiful mountains of Swat near the Afghan border I found some amazing hand carved stone bowls. I had seen the bowls in a local village and due to the language barrier I did not understand they were stone but thought they were fired ceramic. The next morning I walked out the rustic hut I had slept in to find the man with the bowls sitting outside. He lifted the bowls out of a bucket of water and said Stone .. He had learned the English word