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enveloped in a shroud of coarse canvas, apparently of hemp, similar in weave to the specimen
L.F. 03. Tied up into a small bunch on the edge of the shroud where it lay across the breast was
a packet of little broken twigs, evidently intended for consumption by the dead in another life.¹⁰ᵃ
The tied-up end of the shroud above the breast was fastened with fine stalks of hard wood, L.F. 1. 03.
Underneath the shroud the body was bare except for a kind of loin-cloth made up of dark brown
tassels of wool. The feet, as already stated, were stuck in short moccasins, made of red leather
and quite plain.
Three baskets of neatly woven cane-like grass were found deposited within the coffin and Deposits
evidently had once held food-stuffs. But these had probably been destroyed by rodents or insects. in grave.
One of these baskets, L.F. 1. 04 (Pl. XXIX), remained intact and shows at its upper end
ornamentation with zigzag bands. The other two, L.F. 012; 1. 01, had suffered much damage.
The grave we opened next, L.F. 3, was the one lying near the foot end of L.F. 2. This had Grave of
no enclosing fence, and erosion had laid bare the hides covering a coffin similar in its rough make young girl.
to that of the grave last described. In it lay the body of what I took to be a young girl, enveloped
in a shroud of coarse canvas, as shown by the specimen L.F. 03. A plain felt cap covered the head.
The forelocks of its dark hair were cut round the forehead after the fashion often seen on female
heads of terracotta figurines from Yōtkan.¹¹ The face appeared to be a well-formed oval and the
eyes large and straight. Two decorated pins of hard wood, L.F. 3. 01, 2 (Pl. XXIV), and the finely
made bone-pin, L.F. 3. 03 (Pl. XXIV), which fastened the shroud, had probably been in use by the
dead in her lifetime, and likewise the large jade bead, L.F. 3. 04 (Pl. XXIV). To the right of the
head stood a small basket jug, plain but excellently woven.
The last grave examined, L.F. 4, lay close to 1, and its wooden enclosure is seen in Fig. 168 Coffin of
on the right. The Toghrak planks composing it did not rest on the coffin, yet correctly marked grave
its position. The coffin was made up of two hollowed-out Toghrak trunks with cross-pieces at the L.F. 4.
two ends and boards across on the top, just as in L.F. 1; but here the latter were not contiguous
and left open interspaces several inches wide. The whole was tightly covered with two cow-hides.
Three or four feathered reeds found beneath them may have been meant for arrows, perhaps a
provision for happy hunting-grounds beyond.
The body found in this grave lay about two feet deeper than that in L.F. 1. It was that of Head-dress
a middle-aged man completely enveloped in a coarse canvas shroud. The head, as seen in Fig. 172 and shroud
after removal of the covering portion of the shroud, was turned to the left proper. It, too, was of dead,
fairly well preserved and showed distinctly non-Mongolian features. The high-bridged aquiline L.F. 4.
nose is clearly seen in the photograph. Abundant dark hair appeared on the head and round the
chin and mouth. The former was covered with a head-dress of yellow felt, L.F. 04 (Pl. XXIX), similar
in type to L.F. 01, but more ample, and decorated, besides the plumes, with seventeen rows of red
cord stitched round the cap. In addition to the rodent's skin worn as a crest, a tuft of rich feathers
was inserted at the point of the crown. The whole was a good illustration of the kind of head-
dress which would appeal to men who found their chief pleasure in the chase. To the right of the
head was placed the neatly woven grass basket, L.F. 05 (Pl. XXIX). The edge of the shroud near
the head was tied up into two small bags, one of which, as removed in the basket L.F. 05, was found
to contain grains of wheat and the other small twigs. The wooden pin with decorated barrel-shaped
head, L.F. 05. a (Pl. XXIV), and the short sharp-pointed stalks, also listed with this basket, served
as fastenings for the shroud.
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