Author: SILOW, C.-A. & K. SÖDERPALM (EDITORS),
Title: Vid Sidenvägen/On the Silkroad. [Catalogue of the World Exhibition Götheborg14.1-6.4. 1986].
Description: Göteborg, Historika Museum/History Museum, 1986. Slim tall large 8°. Orig. limp glossy coloured illustrated wrappers. 99pp. Many black/white and coloured ills., one double-page plate, 2 track-maps with legenda, name list of organizing museums, institutes and persons, catalogue and list of abbreviations at very end, table of contents. ADDED: a three-fold flyer with a plan to the exhibition and another three-fold plyer printed in colour supplying general information to the exhibition, loosely inserted. Bi-lingual text throughout swedish/english. general information, and a A richly illustrated catalogue/guide to the world exhibition as held at Göteborg Historic Museum on the Silk Road, its archaeology and ethnography. Illustrations show clothing, weapons, musical instruments. Besides its history dext describes Shamanism, Islam, Lamaism, folkculture of the eurasian people, dwellings, The Silk Road is the collective name given to the caravan roads and trade routes which led from China through the hinterland of Asia to Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria and Rome. Very fine copy.

Keywords: exhibition catalogue guide silk road archaeology ethnography dress clothing jewellery weapons musical instriments religion lamaism shamaism islam history trade constaninople near east china