DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.36956#0024
On rare occasions, when we were allowed to enter a private house, al-
most identical ground-plans were obtained. We entered a quadrangular
cabinet with four pillars and a fireplace, without windows, but with a
hole m the roof for ventilation - m many places there was a 'lantern' in-
stead. Some places had superimposed rooms, as had been observed by
Leitner (1894:57 ff). Sometimes the lowest floor is used as a stable and
the family lives on top under a kind of grass-tent. We know now that the
different regions had diverging specialities, the vertical order is com-
bined with fortified and, therefore, narrow villages. The best book for a
local variant - the Pashais, south of Nuristan - was written and charm-
ingly illustrated by Karl Wutt (1981). The survey stalled by Edelberg,
but completed after his sudden and tragic demise by his friends Schuyler
Jones and Torkil Funder, is as good. In some cases the subterranean
rooms were used as sanctuaries, the pillars carved as deities. It is pos-
sible that the immigrants from the northern steppes had brought with
them the habit of passing the winter-time m similar shelters (Edelberg
1984:59-118).
The wooden pails were decorated with chiselled carvings, composed
either of straight notches or curved elements. Several styles might be
discerned.
Dr. Andrews, while fully aware of the work on wood-carving done by
the Italians, as well as by Wutt, Edelberg and myself in other areas,
recorded a great many more examples for what he believes to be the Erst
time. These cannot, unfortunately, be published here. Some of the papers
already published are based on concepts derived A*om other regions,
which were not supported by later Endings. I, for instance, wrote an
article which was based on the patterns of woodcarving E*om Tangir and
Darel, comparing them with the crude embroideries on the female winter
costume (Jettmar 1959). Dr. Andrews' material, including 40 m of rub-
bings, requires considerable time for an adequate analysis.
In Kabul there existed a special bazaar where carvings E*om different
valleys were sold to foreigners for bringing an exotic Earn to their
most identical ground-plans were obtained. We entered a quadrangular
cabinet with four pillars and a fireplace, without windows, but with a
hole m the roof for ventilation - m many places there was a 'lantern' in-
stead. Some places had superimposed rooms, as had been observed by
Leitner (1894:57 ff). Sometimes the lowest floor is used as a stable and
the family lives on top under a kind of grass-tent. We know now that the
different regions had diverging specialities, the vertical order is com-
bined with fortified and, therefore, narrow villages. The best book for a
local variant - the Pashais, south of Nuristan - was written and charm-
ingly illustrated by Karl Wutt (1981). The survey stalled by Edelberg,
but completed after his sudden and tragic demise by his friends Schuyler
Jones and Torkil Funder, is as good. In some cases the subterranean
rooms were used as sanctuaries, the pillars carved as deities. It is pos-
sible that the immigrants from the northern steppes had brought with
them the habit of passing the winter-time m similar shelters (Edelberg
1984:59-118).
The wooden pails were decorated with chiselled carvings, composed
either of straight notches or curved elements. Several styles might be
discerned.
Dr. Andrews, while fully aware of the work on wood-carving done by
the Italians, as well as by Wutt, Edelberg and myself in other areas,
recorded a great many more examples for what he believes to be the Erst
time. These cannot, unfortunately, be published here. Some of the papers
already published are based on concepts derived A*om other regions,
which were not supported by later Endings. I, for instance, wrote an
article which was based on the patterns of woodcarving E*om Tangir and
Darel, comparing them with the crude embroideries on the female winter
costume (Jettmar 1959). Dr. Andrews' material, including 40 m of rub-
bings, requires considerable time for an adequate analysis.
In Kabul there existed a special bazaar where carvings E*om different
valleys were sold to foreigners for bringing an exotic Earn to their