Author: Unknown
Source: The Internet
Owner: www.philographikon.com
Location: Munich, Germany
Link to: Website
No title. Persian falconry Saken: see below
Type of print: lithograph
Artist: Anonymous
Time: ca. 1850
Provenance: Unknown. Please help if you can!
12,3 x 17,2 cm (ca. 4.8 x 6.8")
Condition: Lithograph has some faint yellowish areal spot. Otherwise very clean.
$ 85.00
Order Nr. FALCONRY238833
My research done on this interesting, untitled lithograph led me via "pointed hats" and my assumption that the people on this print with their Arabian horses might be Persians, to internet entries about the "Saker" people. I found that Herodot already described "Saka tigrachauda" as men with pointed hats, nomads on horseback (Sakes in Skythia, Persia, the Middle East). The Saker falcon is the most desired falcon for falconry in the Near East these days.
Five men on horseback, one with a falcon. two men in foreground aiming a long barreled hunting gun at herons.
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