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continuous cloud scroll, and the rosette into a square.
Mostly very irregular rags. Very brittle. Fr. c. 7⅜″×3″.
Pl. XLIII.

L.C. v. 028. Three frs. of woollen canvas; one pink,
others green (?) and buff. Coarse. Gr. M. 4″.

L.C. v. 029. Fr. of plain silk; small corded weave;
very rich colour (crimson) and fine texture. Insect-eaten.
2⅜″×2″.

L.C. v. 030. Fr. of plain silk, dark pink, extremely finely
woven. To two edges are sewn pieces of more loosely
woven dull ochre silk. Perished and stained. 7½″×8″.

L.C. v. 031-4. Four frs. of wooden arrow-shafts.
Butts only, orn. with bands and lines of red and black.
033 has chequer pattern in red; notch missing. 034
has remains of whipping near notch. Lengths 10½″,
12⅜″, 7⅜″, and 3½″, diam. of all ⅜″. Pl. XXVI.

L.C. vi. 01. Fr. of silk damask, white or pale cream
colour, with small pattern consisting of zigzag lines about
¼″ apart, between which is row of small lozenges ('pheasant's
eye' or 'bulbul chashm'). Much discoloured. Very ragged
and perished. 2″×c. 1″. Pl. XLIII.

L.C. vi. 02. Fr. of plain silk, very finely woven. Orig.
prob. pink, now very discoloured. Remains of yellow
silk sewing at two edges. Very brittle and perished.
Length 1′, width 1′ 7″.

L.C. vi. 03. Fr. of figured silk, same as L.C. 01 (Pl.
XXXV), q. v. Weft here blue and brown, with yellow-brown
spots. Colour well preserved. Fabric much perished.
6″×2″.

L.C. vi. 04. Fr. of plain silk, faded blue, finely woven.
Much discoloured; very ragged and perished. Length
c. 10″.

L.C. vi. 05. Fr. of plain silk, pale buff or white, doubled
and sewn at edges where frs. of adjoining silk show. Very
brittle, ragged, and perished. 6″×c. 4″.

L.C. vi. 06. Fr. of silk waste. In mass. 6″×3½″.

L.C. vii. 01. Misc. fabric frs., including large fr. of
strong cotton fabric. Selvedge on one side, cut to curve
on another, and one corner torn. Irregular shape, but
suggestive of part of coat. Strong but discoloured.
With it another fr. of same fabric, rotten and much
torn, and misc. small frs. of plain silk, and silk and wool
felt. Large fr. 27″×3″.

L.C. vii. 02. Fr. of figured silk, finely woven, with
dull yellow pattern on blue ground. Pattern is angular
meander, the lines c. ½″ apart at their nearest points. In
the bends are placed two sq. dots, excepting at the 7th,
14th, 21st, and 26th bends, in which are Chin. chars.
repeated vertically but differing transversely. Along each
selvedge are more chars. in pale buff, repeated at every
meander, but differing on opposite selvedges.
Full width of pieces is present, the extreme edge being
pale buff about ⅜₀″ wide. Fairly preserved, but torn,
with small pieces of the same, brittle and discoloured.
Length 12″, width (selvedge to selvedge) 19″. Pl. XXXV.

L.C. vii. 03. Wooden implement, prob. plasterer's
spatula. Long pieces of wood, rectang. in section; centre
(waist) flattened at sides for grasping; ends flattened on
other two faces into paddle-shape for smoothing wet plaster.
Good condition. Length 13″, waist 1″×⅜″, blades 1¼″
and 1¼″×¼″ to ³⁄₁₆″.

L.C. vii. 04. Mass of frs. of silk embroidery. Ground,
very fine corded silk of rich crimson embroidered in
chain stitch with fine silk thread, blue, brown and buff.
Pattern of graceful stems, leaves, and flowers with small
simple petal shapes, semé in patches.
Plain blue and buff silk sewn in places on back as lining,
and a few of the embroidered pieces sewn together without
regard to continuity of pattern. Fine work and colours
well preserved, but somewhat sand-encrusted. Average
size of fr. c. 3″ or 4″ sq. Pl. XXXV, XLIII.

L.C. vii. 05. Misc. frs. of plain silk and human bones,
with fr. of silk embroidery identical with the preceding.
Plain silk blue and buff. Many of the pieces sticking
together, and some (with fr. of embroidery) sticking to
bones.
On fr. of blue silk four adjacent bones from phalanges
of foot. Other loose frs. of bone also present; all appa-
rently those of woman or child. Very fragile. Gr. fr.
(silk) 8″×3″.

L.C. vii. 06. Two frs. of plain silk garment; body-
band (?) in several pieces. Silk light buff and green, with
stiffening of coarse brown cotton (?) canvas. Very ragged
and dirty. Gr. fr. 1′ 9″×9½″; smaller 1′ 1″×5″.

L.C. vii. 07. a. Frs. of figured silk garment, consist-
ing of strips. Warp-rib weave; ground bronze, blue,
buff, and yellow 'vermicular' cloud scroll; padded with
fine soft felt and lined with plain thin silk. The form
of edge of garment seems to have taken a long elliptical
shape with flattened point at one end, to which is sewn
a bow of blue silk with long ends. About 12″ from the bow
a kind of cord (formed by oversewing plain silk upon felt)
runs across the ellipse and curves back to join the bow.
The space contained between the strips was filled
with plain silk, which is continued into the other half
of the ellipse, that half being incomplete. A small fr.
of brocade of same pattern as L.C. i. 06 (Pl. XLII), sewn
to larger piece.
b. Two detached strips of brocade may belong to it;
of these, one shows a floral scroll in blue, green and buff
on copper ground. Sand-encrusted and ragged. Gr. fr.
30″×2″.

L.C. vii. 08. Two strips of plain silk, white, knotted
together at their ends. Soft and well preserved, but
discoloured. 18″×3″.

L.C. vii. 09. Frs. of silk damask, dark buff, finely
woven. Pattern a well-designed stepped chevron in double
lines, containing between them a simple fret. Adjacent
chevrons are opposed point to point without touching, and
in the lozenges so formed are pairs of cranes, regardant.
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