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of a larger painting. Broken on all sides and L. side badly
damaged by moisture. 1′ 3″ × 1′ ¼″ (height).

Kao. III. 059. Fr. of terra-cotta grotesque dragon
head in relief. Lower jaw, point of snout and back of head
missing ; rugged teeth in front part of upper jaw. Two
blunt leaf-shaped ears placed side by side, and two snail-
shell scrolls in high relief probably representing eyes.
Line of forehead rises abruptly from prominent snout.
Edge of gum on lower plane than lip. Deep groove at
angle of jaws and three deep grooves along ear. Rough
work.
Back of fr. unmodelled. Grey ; buff on surface due to
sand incrustation. Length 7″, height 5¼″, thickness 1¾″.
Pl. LXIX.

Kao. III. 060. Fr. of grass broom similar to Anc. Khotan,
ii. Pl. LXXIII, N.X. 07. Length 10¾″, width at base c. 2½″.

Kao. III. 061. Wooden weighting board, from small
banner. Long sides parallel, short sides converging up-
wards. Groove in upper edge. Painted dull yellow with
scroll design rapidly painted in black line within narrow
border, and with subsidiary lines in red. Cinctures across
diverging curves. For shape cf. Ser. iv. Pl. LXXVII, Ch. 003.
Length 5⅝″ ; width 1⁵⁄₁₆″ ; thickness ¹⁄₁₆″.

Kao. III. 062. Fr. of wooden billet, cut to blunt point at
one end and broken away at other. Roughly painted with
transverse stripes ; grey-blue at point, then red, buff (?)
and grey-blue. Length 2⅜″ ; width ¾″ ; thickness ³⁄₁₆″.

Kao. III. 063. Pair of shoes. Golosh composed of two
halves joined at back of heel and at toe. Shape of halves
is such that when joined in a centre line on top, toe is
pointed and stands clear above sole. Seam turns over
point dropping downwards and slightly inwards to meet
front end of sole.
Halves of golosh are composed of five superimposed
layers of woven material. That which comes to inside
of shoe is a soft loosely woven woollen canvas ; outer
layer, a fine crimson cord or repp, which is stitched to
a woollen canvas backing by regularly placed stitches at
intervals of about 4″, except for a width of about ³⁄₁₆″ next
sole, giving somewhat the effect of fine quilting. Behind
canvas backing is a thin loosely woven crimson woollen
fabric, and between that and lining of shoe a layer of thick
soft hemp (?) canvas, stitched all over with crimson thread.
Edge of mouth of shoe rises slightly towards heel ; as
it approaches toe it curves inward from each side and
meets in front in a sharp point directed back towards
instep. It is bound with finely corded buff silk about ⅜″
broad, except in front where it widens to ¾″, and again
diminishes as it nears point. It is secured by three rows
of stitching on outside.
On top of toe and concealing seam is an appliqué
ornamental band extending from point at instep to upraised
toe point, round which it wraps. The band is 1¼″ wide and
divided longitudinally into three equal parts ; centre is
decorated with transverse silver threads couched with
yellow 'horse-tail' ; a simple but now unintelligible pattern

in dark brown or purple is worked over the silver. Along
centre is a line of green braid stitching.
On each side of the silver is a band of purple silk gauze
with a yellow silk cable cord on its inner edge and a piping
of even and closely woven fine buff canvas on the outer,
bound at intervals with yellow silk. On the purple, ³⁄₁₆″
from yellow cord and parallel to it, is a thin line of white
silk cable cord, with a second laid beside it but throwing out
a trefoil scroll at intervals of ¾″. The silver thread extends
under the purple gauze and is couched to a dark grey or
black fabric which is backed with fine crimson plain cloth.
Heel seam is covered with same appliqué ornament.
Below point of toe the seam is curiously roughly sewn,
forming a bunched mass of many thicknesses ; it con-
tinues for about 1¾″ into the sole, which seems to be cut
for that distance for the purpose of being sewn up again.
Sole is only 1¾″ broad ; has straight parallel sides and
is rounded at ends. It is quilted in regular thread extends
transverse ribs about ³⁄₁₆″ wide. Its outer covering is
strong, closely woven buff hemp cloth.
Both shoes are well preserved, but have holes here and
there eaten by insects or rodents. A small fr. of oxidized
iron adheres to edge of one shoe, and several frs. to sole and
side of other. Length of sole 8¾″. Both shoes are flattened
out and in that condition measure across middle 4⅝″ (cf.
Kao. III. 053). Pl. LXXXVIII.

Kao. III. 064. Turned wooden finial, with round tenon
¾″ in length and in diam. at foot. Mushroom head on
short neck, and flattened spherical body with sharp-edged
ring moulding above and below ; at bottom, plain cylin-
drical portion cut down sq. to tenon. Cracked. H. with
tenon 3¼″, gr. diam. 2½″.

Kao. III. 065-81. Misc. frs. of cast bronze, the majority
convex and obtained from sides of caldrons ; some
showing rib on outer side. 073, in three pieces, joining,
shows thickened everted rim of caldron, and shoulder with
mark of small loop-handle (broken off) and line of junction
of parts of mould. Gr. M. (073, joined) arc of rim 8½″, h. 3″.

Kao. III. 087-97. Misc. frs. of cast bronze ; small,
mostly flat. Plain. Gr. M. 2³⁄₁₆″.

Kao. III. 098. Fr. of rim of iron vessel. Very slightly
everted, and almost flat. Faint horizontal grooves below
lip. 2⅝″ × 1⅛″.

Kao. III. 099. Thin wrought iron (?) saucer ; flat-
bottomed, with low curving side and plain edge. Three
small holes equidistant from each other by edge. Rusted.
Diam. of rim 5⅝″, h. ¾″. Pl. LXX.

Kao. III. 0100-3. Four thin stamped iron (?) saucers,
flat-bottomed, like preceding. 0100 has fluted sides,
scalloped at edge ; 0101 has sides in eight shallower
scallops and rim turned out flat, forming octofoil ; 0102
and 0103 lightly grooved and scalloped in six foils only.
Rusted. Diam. 4¾″, h. ⅝″. Pl. LXX.

Kao. III. 0104. Thin wrought bronze bowl or cooking-
pot ; shallow, flat-bottomed, but convex sides curving in