Barry Cunlife - The Scythians

bodies clothed in skins
8.4 The clothing of the deceased buried in the cemetery of Pazyryk is generally well preserved. Above:
shirt from kurgan 2 woven from hemp and kendyr fibres. Below: caftan from kurgan 3 made from a double
thickness of thin white felt.
But it is the frozen tombs of the Altai, where organic materials are well preserved,
that provide the most vivid and detailed insight into nomad dress. Men
wore shirts of woven hemp or kendyr fibres, stitched with fine red woollen braid.
Over the shirts they wore longer tunics, well-tailored and covered with appliqué
designs in cut-out leather and gold. One of the tunics was made simply of
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