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eminent authority on Indian philology very kindly placed his great knowledge at my
disposal to settle the questions relating to a strip of silk with Kharoshthi script.

My thanks are also due to Professor Helmer Smith of Upsala, Mr. W. A.
Unkrig of Frankfurt-am-Main and Dr. Kaare Grönbech of Copenhagen for
their kindness in assisting me with the reading of some Tibetan and Mongolian
characters.

Dr. Gunnar Jarring of Lund has controlled the transcription of the Turki
names so as to bring them into line with international usage, and for the tran-
scription of Mongol names I have had the privilege of utilizing Mr. Unkrig's deep
knowledge.

Professor Gaston Backman of Lund has been extraordinarily obliging in exam-
ining the anthropological material from the graves. Unfortunately, his publication
has been delayed by unforeseen circumstances, so I have been unable to make use of
his results; but his report will probably be ready in the near future.

Dr. R. Bergenhayn of the Invertebrate Department of the Museum of Natural
History has with great thoroughness carried out microscopic determinations of
shells and beads and similar articles of adornment made of shells.

To Dr. T. Du Rietz, who subjected the prehistoric flint material to ocular exam-
ination, I am indebted for valuable hints.

Miss I. Ekberg has been of great assistance to both Miss Sylwan and myself in
the preparation of the textiles and other tasks in connection with the arranging of
the collections. She is also the author of Indian ink drawings and the coloured
plates in this book, and has in addition helped me with proof-reading. I have also
had kind assistance with this from my wife and my sister.

The maps have been drawn at A.-B. Kartlitografen, Stockholm. Some of the pho-
tographs for the collotype plates have been taken by N. Lagergren; the majority
by myself. For three of the photographs in the text I have Mr. Chen to thank. The
collotype plates were executed at Malmö Ljustrycksanstalt, other clichés by Berg-
ström's Klichéanstalt, Stockholm.

Finally, I wish to express my appreciation of the work of Mr. Leonard B. Eyre
and Mr. Donald Burton, who have had the probably not always easy task of cor-
recting each a part of my English text and as far as possible getting its rough turn-
ings to sound English.

Stockholm, February 1939.

Folke Bergman.

ABBREVIATIONS.

MFEA Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities L. length.
(Östasiatiska Samlingarna). Th. thickness.
Br. breadth. W. width.

For abbreviations referring to publications cf. the bibliography.

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