Collections

There are only a very few Kurdish items documented in the British Museum, and none of these are on display. They include 11 items of clothing from Iraq which were transferred from The Victoria and Albert Museum in 1967, as was a pair of trousers from Iran, donated the following year.

There is also a veil from Turkey, and two spindle whorls from Iran. In Gallery 56 of the museum, which covers early Mesopotamia, you can see stone statuettes from what is now the Kurdish region of North Iraq.