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0464 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1
中央アジア踏査記 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000214
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much of the designs in its elaborate decoration still surviv-
ing in the modern saddlery of the country. Equally well
modelled from life were the numerous figures of camels.
Other and larger stucco figures found in alcoves near the
entrance of the tombs show composite monsters meant, like
the tu-kuei figures of Chinese sculpture, to keep off evil spirits
from the abode of the dead.
Among the articles of food deposited for the use of the
dead the most interesting perhaps were collections of fancy
pastry exhibiting a great variety of shapes (Fig. 126). Their
state of conservation was remarkable, especially as their
receptacles had evidently been disturbed by plundering
hands. Considering the brittleness of this elaborate pastry
it was no easy task to pack and transport it safely. Among
the articles for personal use found with the dead there were
ladies' toilet outfits which must have been actually in use.
The custom of wrapping around the bodies rag-like pieces
of fabrics, mostly silk, has provided us here, just as at those
oldest burial relics of the Lou-lan grave-pits, with a wealth
of most interesting materials for the study of ancient textile
art. Their value is greatly enhanced by the fact that in the
Astana tombs all such finds can be dated with approximate
accuracy. Among these textiles there abound figured silks,
both polychrome and damasks. The variety of designs shown
by them is great and helps in a very striking fashion to illus-
trate the position which Turfan and probably other oases
of Chinese Turkistan occupied at that period as places of
trade exchange between China and Western Asia. For by
the side of figured silks with purely Chinese designs there
were found here plenty of others showing features of decora-
tive style peculiar to the silks produced in Iran and else-