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38:3. Tress of black hair and plait of yel-
lowish white wool.

38:4-5. Two pieces of wool rep, undyed and
deep red.

38:6. Narrow strip of silk rep, probably
undyed, discoloured to yellowish
brown, with printed pattern in black China-ink:
incomplete scrolls, repeated six times. Pl. 23:2.

38:7. Fragm. of yellow silk rep with attached
strip of green silk rep and three small
fragm. of a green strip with the edges turned in.

38:8. Large piece of undyed (?) yellowish-
brown silk rep with one selvage.

38:9. More or less triangular piece of yel-
lowish-brown silk rep with two seams
and hem along biased edge.

38:10. Small fragm. of a rug, woven in twill
of grass fibre, probably a single thread
of animal's hair.

38:11. Small earthenware cup with ring-
shaped handle, and opposite to this a
small lip. Flat bottom. Roughly shaped. Light-
red ware intermixed with grains of sand. Rim
damaged. Diam. of bottom 7.5—8 cm. H. 8 cm.
Pl. 27:5.

38:12. Fragm. of cylindrical wooden vessel
with traces of lacquer. The round
bottom consists of a flat piece, lacquered red on
the inside, brown on the outside. Diam. 11.1—
11.3 cm. The wall consists of a thin pane shaped
into a cylinder, the ends overlapping and glued
together (now open). The larger part of the wall
is preserved from the bottom to a height of 8 cm.,
though broken in several pieces. On the outside
the ground has been brown, the pattern red, black
and yellowish-brown, all in lacquer. The preserved
parts of the pattern is shown in Fig. 33. The

inside is lacquered red. Thickness of wall increases
towards top.

A fragm. from the upper rim is lacquered red
on the inside and brown on the outside, 7.6 cm.
high. Traces of red and yellow stripes on the
outside along the rim. A small flat handle, 1.8 cm.
wide, in the shape of half a cylinder, 1.7 cm. below
the rim. Only the ends remain sticking in their
holes in the wall. On the inner side of the wall the
ends have been joined together with two small
wooden needles, 1.8 cm. long. This fragm. of an
upper rim might belong to another vessel.

38:13. Three fragm. of an oval wooden food-
tray or shallow trough, with four low
legs, made out of one piece. The legs are round
in section, about 2 cm. high. The original size of
the tray probably 46×28 cm. For reconstruction
cf. Pl. 27:1.

38:14. Wooden trough, quite shallow, rect-
angular, with rounded corners and
slightly rounded ends, which are somewhat higher
than the long sides. L. 45 cm. Br. 25—26 cm. H.
in the middle about 5 cm., at the ends about 8 cm.
Pl. 27:2.

38:15. Wooden comb with high back, origi-
nally parabolic, and fine teeth. Cut
off in ancient times. H. 7.9 cm. Br. 5 cm., origi-
nally broader. Pl. 25:4.

38:16. Main part of a wooden comb with
very coarse teeth. The high back ir-
regular, deformed. H. 5.9 cm. Br. 5.2 cm., origi-
nally broader. Pl. 25:6.

38:17. Wooden peg, semicircular section, the
ends tapering and having a step. 17.5
×0.8 cm.

38:18. Wooden peg like —:17 but without
steps at the ends. 18.2×0.9 cm.

38:19. Small thin pointed wooden peg. L. 18.2
cm.

F. GRAVE (?) NEAR HEDIN'S CAMP 80. (NO. 39)

Camp 80 in Qum-darya's delta served as a base for Dr. Hedin and Mr. Chen
during their common efforts to survey the Lop lake with canoes. During their ab-
sence some of the servants collected about one hundred beads of glass, shell,
and carnelian. Mr. Chen, who handed over these finds to me, was of the opinion
that they originated from one or more graves which the servants had come across
on a mesa in the vicinity of the camp.

The glass beads are all small, mostly white translucent, but a few had originally

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