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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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Many students indeed would suppose, not merely
Aryan (Græco-Bactrian or Græco-Indian) influence,
such as might be exerted by the incoming of a few
enlightened teachers or great merchants; but would
trace the very origin of the Tarim race itself to some
western or south-western source. A reference to
Darius's dreams of conquest and colonisation in the
farthest East is thought to point the way toward a
theory of Iranian ancestry. The frequent occur-
rence of monkey images in clay among the an-
tiquities taken from Boresan, about three miles from
Khotan, suggests a popular familiarity with Macca-
cus Semnopithicus, an animal commonly found to the
south of the Himalayas. This toy, together with
the similarity of head-dress shown in small terra-
cotta images to that known in Northern India sev-
eral centuries before Christ are seized upon to give
Hindu-Aryan grandfathers to the Tarim people.
The idealised lion-faces (see p. 140) are also numer-
ous at Boresan; those from which the illustrations
are made were picked up by the natives from some
new-cut face of the loess, formed by the wandering
current of the river. These lion-faces do duty as
proofs of Mesopotamian influence, or, to the ad-
herents of Hebraic ideas, of Mesopotamian origin.
The lion is not known in Turkestan. Its image is
everywhere—even in snowy Tibet it is a common
architectural ornament.
An inspection of toy-shops or bric-à-brac counters
in London or New York might, by reasoning similar
to that just recorded, result in bringing us all from
Africa—home of the menageries which, in paste-
board and in flesh, have furnished our childish or
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