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round angles. Contents : small silver (?) mirror with em-
bossed lotus design at back and centre boss with remains
of crimson silk cord ; finely cut wooden comb with low
arched back ; several ' screws ' of paper, one containing a
white powder, another a fr. of crimson felt ; rest empty.
Finely written Chinese characters on most of papers. A
few frs. of charcoal. At bottom, a folded paper with large
seal impressions in red, and several cols. of Chin. writing
in black.
Box seems to have been sealed up with band round edge,
and frs. of plain silk are sticking to top. Lacquered black
over canvas. Well made and well preserved. Diam. 6½″.
H. 3″. Pl. LXXXIX.

Ast. ix. 2. 04. Seven thin bronze plates, parts of
pendant. Two lunette-shaped, two circular, and three
pear-shaped. All drilled with small holes for attaching by
thread. Brittle. Frs. of crimson thread. Diam. of lunettes
1⅛″. Circles ¾″ and ⅝″. Pear-shapes c. 1″×1⅛″. Pl.
LXXXIX.

Ast. ix. 2. 05. Twenty-two glass beads ; blue, green,
yellow, and black ; one red lac. Pl. LXXXIX.

Ast. ix. 2. 06. Miniature carriage, consisting of body of
slab of dough. Through it are thrust two parallel wooden
twigs for shafts, joined at front end by thin twig as yoke
bound with grass fibre. A fourth twig is thrust through
body transversely as axle-tree. Two thin cane hoops for
hood. Wheels and one hoop missing. See ix. 2. 049, 51.
Fragile. Length 8″, width of shafts 1⅝″. Pl. XCIV.

Ast. ix. 2. 07. Many small frs. of iron, probably of
pair of scissors. Badly corroded and with pieces of silk
adhering.

Ast. ix. 2. 08. Two frs. of damask, brown, finely woven ;
small concentric lozenge pattern.

Ast. ix. 2. 09. Many small frs. of silk damask, stained
yellow. Probably similar to Ser. iv. Pl. CXVII, T. XIV. v.
0011. a. Very brittle.

Ast. ix. 2. 010. Fifteen clear green glass beads, and
one small shell ; one white, from coffin (c). Pl. LXXXIX.

Ast. ix. 2. 011. Mass of silk embroidery threads,
various colours ; found with Ast. ix. 2. 07.

Ast. ix. 2. 012. Small silk bag ; square blue ground
decorated by ' resist ' method with delicate conventional
floral pattern on ogee plan, introducing birds in yellow.
The pattern apparently applied freehand and not by stamps
or stencils. Groups of seven berries occur in a second
colour. Well preserved. 2″ square. Pl. LXXXII.

Ast. ix. 2. 013. Small silk bag, made of maroon, yellow,
and blue squares sewn together, of which the blue have
' resist ' flower spot pattern. Drawing string at mouth.
Very fragile. 2⅜″×3″.

Ast. ix. 2. 014. Frs. of silk patchwork garment (?), of
unrecognisable form. Squares of yellow damask are divided
by bands of green corded damask silk, with squares of
plum-coloured damask at the crossings. Flowers and discs

are visible on the yellow squares, but no connected pattern
can be made out. One edge of article is bound with green
silk ; cf. Ast. ix. 2. 019, Pl. LXXVII. Very brittle. Prin-
cipal frs. about 4″ square.

Ast. ix. 2. 015. Mass of silk rags of various colours.
Very brittle. Bundle c. 6″×1″.

Ast. ix. 2. 016. Silk gauze sleeve-like object, with long
lozenge all-over pattern ; rather involved interlaced pattern
in each lozenge. Rich ochre colour ; good weaving.
Attached to sleeve is what appears to be a shoulder-piece
in plain silk. Very fragile. Sleeve 16″×4″. Shoulder
9½″×5″. Pl. XXXVI.

Ast. ix. 2. 017. Figured silk frs., of ' Sasanian ' type from
head-cover of body b. Probably boar's head pattern. For
good example, see Ast. i. 5. 03, Pl. LXXVI. Very dis-
coloured, brittle and broken. Gr. fr. 5″×3⅓″.

Ast. ix. 2. 019. Fr. of silk patchwork, with large open
square pattern of work made of bars of plain yellow doubled
silk 1″ broad, with 1″ squares cut from ' Sasanian ' figured
silk at crossings. Size of square openings about 3″. For
similar garment, but with open squares filled in, see Ast.
ix. 2. 014. Brittle. 10″×6″. Pl. LXXVII.

Ast. ix. 2. 020. Mass of small silk frs. of plum colour
finely woven ; from plain shirt of body b. C. 12″×7″.

Ast. ix. 2. 021. Mass of cuttings, from various silks and
cloths, in small rolls tied round with thread. Also pieces
of silk wool ; ' screws ' of paper tied with thread. All
fabrics plain ; some quite perished. From coffin (a).

Ast. ix. 2. 022. Fr. of figured silk face-cover, from
body c. Pattern of modified ' Sasanian ' style. On
salmon-pink ground rows of rosettes surrounded by twenty-
four pearls. Inner ray of petals twelve (pink), outer twenty
(pink outlined brown). Spacing of rosettes equal each
way.
In spandrel, green rosette composed of ellipse of eight
pearls as centre, and from cardinal points four five-pointed
palmette leaves, green. All outlines white : cf. v. Falke,
Seidenweberei, i. Fig. 110 (banner stuff of Mikado Shomu).
Lower part perished and missing. Remains of white frill.
6½″×7″. Pl. LXXVIII.

Ast. ix. 2. 023. Paper hat or crown, painted black.
From a band or tenia 1⅝″ wide, encircling head, rises a
second band of same width, from centre of forehead over
top of head. On each side of it rises a solid piece with
rounded top ; cf. Ast. vi. 3. 05, Pl. CVII. R. and L. of
centre of tenia, and 4″ apart, two ⅝″ gold transverse bands.
In space between gold bands three stars with gold lozenge-
shaped points set round coloured centre.
On vertical central band is a transverse narrow gold
band 1⅓″ above tenia, with star in intervening space.
Similar stars on rounded side-pieces. The narrow gold
bands are of yellow silk damask. Stars are of paper, gilded
for points. Very fragile. Height from brim to highest
part of crown 4⅝″. Length when flattened out 12⅓″.
Pl. XCIII.