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0559 Across Asia : vol.1
アジア横断 : vol.1
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[Photo] ヴァンガタン村の近くにある仏陀の彫刻画のある石A stone with carved images of Buddhaa near the village of Vangathan.

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doi: 10.20676/00000221
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RECORDS OF THE JOURNEY

A stone with carved images of Buddha near the village of Vangathan.

to the gorge. The journey proceeded as usual along these mountain gorges or narrow valleys in the mountains. At times the road runs along the bank of a river, at others it goes along a narrow ledge t hat creeps a few fathoms upward and leads round some projecting, more or less steep mountain. There is nothing breakneck about it, however. The ledges are often very narrow, stony and occasionally poorly strengthened with plaited twigs. The ascents and descents are fairly steep. On the whole the road is quite passable for caravans. We met quite a number of animals laden with different kinds of goods going to Labrang or coming from it, mostly with hides. Fields had been ploughed and a few houses appeared almost everywhere, where the mountains retreated from the river. The inhabitants were now almost entirely Tanguts. Dungans are only seen in exceptional cases. Here, too, energetic work was going on in the fields, but the labourers were mostly women. You see them striding about with heavy manly steps in their sheepskin coats edged with red and hitched up high. The furs are worn thrown off the right shoulder, so that their arms and breasts are bare. They wear blue or black caps on the backs of their heads, shaped like a sugar-loaf and with thick trimming at the bottom. Their feet are enveloped in rough leather shoes with leggings of red cloth reaching almost to their knees. But their way of doing their hair is the most curious feature. It is plaited into a number of little rats' tails, to the ends of which they fasten an embroidered broad bit of red cloth decorated with white buttons, large shells, copper discs etc. Many of them wear a long, roll-shaped massive plait of two bunches of red and green threads hanging down close to the ground. It is tied so as to form a kind of large, twisted bun that hangs across the lower end

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