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Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books

T. xxii. d. 010. Bundle of silk (?) waste; c. 3″ × 1½″.
(diam.).

T. xxii. d. 011, 012. Specimens of grain.

T. xxii. d. 025. Wooden writing-slip, blank. Decaying
wood, warped and broken. Gr. fr. 6½″ × 1″.

T. xxii. d. 027. Wooden peg; roughly cut, with gro-
tesque face roughly drawn in ink at top. Cf. T. xiii. j.
01, and Ser. iv. Pl. LII, T. vi. b. i. 002-4. 5⅜″ × ⅜″ × ¼″.
Pl. XLVII.

T. xxii. d. i. 01. Frs. of cotton (?) fabric; coarse, plain,
natural buff, knotted together, with scrap of plain buff
silk sewn to it. Gr. M. 9″.

T. xxii. d. i. 02. Frs. of vegetable-fibre string, various
thicknesses, knotted together. Gr. length 9″.

T. xxii. d. i. 03. Fr. of vegetable-fibre fabric; warp
widely spaced and weft of pairs of picks, wrapped-twined.
Prob. part of shoe sole. 10″ × ⅜″. Pl. XLVI.

T. xxii. d. i. 04. Handful of silk waste, natural buff.

T. xxii. d. i. 05-7. Three frs. of plain silk; red, buff,
and blue, resp. Gr. length 7″.

T. xxii. d. i. 08. Fr. of cane, perhaps from writing-slip.
Blank. 2⅝″ × ¼″.

OBJECTS EXCAVATED AT WATCH-TOWER T. XXII. E

T. xxii. e. 01. Fr. of pottery. Part of wall of wheel-
made vessel; unglazed. Reddish grey. 3¼″ × 2½″ × ⅜″.

T. xxii. e. 02. Wooden comb; parabolic back with fine
teeth, of which many broken. Similar to T. xxii. d. 04.
3″ × 2″.

T. xxii. e. 011. Fr. of wooden bow or cross-bow (?), in
two pieces. Irregularly pentagonal in section. Outer
face shaved down at upper end. Broad transverse notch
1⁵⁄₁₆″ wide and ¼″ deep, cut at 3½″ from end. Opposite
end twisted, tapered, and broken. Remains of pink paint

over whole, and of Chin. inscr. on four faces, mostly in
small neat hand but almost effaced. Wood hard. Length
(both frs. joined) 16½″; gr. thickness ⅜″ × ¼″. Pl. XLVI.

T. xxii. e. 012. Wooden seal-case, as Ser. iv. Pl. LIII,
T. xix. ii. 001 (cf. ii. p. 771, T. viii. 5, type A), but unfinished.
Block squared, and three grooves sawn across, but cavity
not cut out. 1¼″ sq. × ⅝″. Pl. XLVII.

T. xxii. e. 013. Broom of feathery-headed grass,
tied round with string; see Anc. Khotan, ii. Pl. LXXIII,
D. ii. 011. Length 1′ 11″, diam. 1⅜″. Pl. XLVI.

OBJECTS EXCAVATED AT WATCH-TOWER T. XXII. F

T. xxii. f. 01. Fr. of horse's bit. Made of iron rod,
doubled and twisted closely upon itself, leaving loop at
each end, of which one is corroded through. Rusty.
Length 2⅝″, thickness of stem ½″. Pl. XLVII.

T. xxii. f. 02-3. Two bronze arrow-heads; cf. C. xcvi.
016; Lal S. 015; Kum. 01. Barbs cut well back; small
triangular depression in each face; iron tangs (remains
of). Good condition. Lengths 1⁵⁄₁₆″ and 1⅜″. Pl. XLVII.

T. xxii. f. 04. Fr. of plain silk, very fine, natural buff.
Gr. M. 5½″.

T. xxii. f. 05. Bronze strap-end (?). D-shaped plate;
slightly convex in front, flat at back, with hole through
for pin at each end of straight side, and two holes close
together in middle of long curve. Fair condition. Length
⅞″, gr. width ⁹⁄₁₆″, thickness c. ³⁄₃₂″. Pl. XLVII.

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T. xxiii. 01. Wooden object; peg (?), square at one
end, chamfered and tapering towards other; square
reversed again, abruptly forming nut-like end with outer
corners chamfered into octagon. Roughly made. Origin-
ally painted black. 6″ × 1¼″. Pl. XLVI.

T. xxiii. a. 01. Shoe, well made of string with open-work
string uppers; as Ser. iv. Pl. XXXVII, L.A. vi. ii. 0025.
8½″ × 3″. Broken. Pl. XLVI.

T. xxiii. a. 02. Fr. of shoe; part of uppers, similar to
preceding but of finer string very closely worked.

T. xxiii. a. 03. Wooden stopper (?); shaped like bottle
cork. Roughly cut. 2½″ × 1¼″.

T. xxiii. a. 04. Wooden stick; natural form, with bark

T. xxiii. b. 01. Leather. Rough strip, thick, with several
pieces sewn to it with leather thong. 6⅜″ × 1⅜″.

T. xxiii. b. 02. Small wooden cleat, with nick in centre

removed, sharpened at one end, chisel-shaped and broken
at other. Split and weathered. 19½″ × 1″.

T. xxiii. a. 06. Ball of woollen string, fine but strong.
Appears to be wound round core of cloth. Diam. 2⅜″.
Pl. XLVI.

T. xxiii. a. 07. Wooden spatula, with long narrow
blade broadening towards end. Marks of usage suggest
a stirring implement used in cooking. Length of whole
16½″, blade 3″ × 1⅜″. Pl. XLVI.

T. xxiii. a. 08. Flat strip of wood, spear-head shaped;
one edge cut with small regular notching. Much cracked
and split. Length 11″, width 1⅜″. Pl. XLVII.

T. xxiii. a. 09. Fibre. Large hank of fibre resembling
bhang. 18½″ × 5″ × 3″.

OBJECTS EXCAVATED AT WATCH-TOWER T. XXIII. B

and tapering at both ends, as Ser. iv. Pl. XXVIII, N. xiv.
iii. 0017. 2⅝″ × ⅝″.