Pakistan
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 61 objects from the region now defined as Pakistan. These dating from 100 to 1997. This collection includes 35 objects from the Punjab, 11 from the North West Frontier Province, six from Sindh and two from Kashmir. The material includes containers, jewellery, stone carvings, carved wooden furniture and costume and textiles. The collection also contains musical instruments, ritual apparatus, damascened metalware, weapons, prints, books, armour and card plates. Objects of note include a koftgari casket from Sialkot and three examples of architectural wooden carving, or chaukat, by two carvers from Bhera, in the Shahpur District, one of the centres most noted for carving in the Punjab. In addition there is a unique silk and gilt thread embroidered hanging, made in Hyderabad, and four stone Buddhist carvings from Peshawar, dating AD 100–700, that represent the Gandaran Greco-Buddhist tradition. The collection further includes a turban and ritual ewer made by Dr Imam Sahibzada of Glasgow Central Mosque, which was purchased in 1992 for the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, to be displayed in the museum’s Gallery of World Religions. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan was part of British India prior to partition in 1947. It still retains archaeological evidence of settlement by the Greeks, Persians, Arabs, Afghans, Turks and Mongols.
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