With pictures, this is how a Kurdish woman turned her mud house into an archaeological museum

Shelves are decorated with clay art statues, creative enamel mastery of their formation with ingenuity and innate talent, to mix mud with a little salt and straw, in the end to become pieces of art that inspire the viewer at first glance, as antique pieces and statues dating back to ancient times.

She is the “Hazniyeh Othman”, a woman of her fifties, dubbed “Kaji Kurd”, which means in the Kurdish language “daughter of the Kurds”, who mastered in making her clay masterpieces.

Sadia’s passion for collecting ancient heritage collections goes back to her childhood, and her fondness for all the old led her to organize several annual exhibitions of forgotten heritage and artifacts, some dating back more than 600 years, and arranged them in a mud room in her old rural home in the village of Ma’souk in the eastern countryside of Qamishli. Northeastern Syria.

Hazniyeh, who was interviewed by the lens of “Sky News Arabia”, possesses more than 5,000 ancient pieces of millstones for grinding grain, the old wooden plow, horse saddles, bridal boxes, pottery and old glassware, coffee pails of various shapes and types, and rails and sprinklers (tools used For women’s adornment), in addition to spinners and tablecloths used to make rugs, and sieve made from animal intestines.

There are also agricultural tools, wooden spoons, weapons, swords and shields dating back more than 600 years, as well as scales, lanterns, old toys and other tools used in the past in the manufacture of dairy products.