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0485 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1
中央アジア踏査記 : vol.1
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The style of these art relics, with rare exceptions like the
wooden statuette of a Lokapala or 'Guardian of the Quarter',
which is a fine specimen of T'ang carving, display clearly
the predominant influence of Graeco-Buddhist art as de-
veloped in the extreme north-west of India. But what im-
parts a very special interest to most of the stucco sculptures,
for the student of the history of this art as transplanted to
Central Asia, is the curious tendency which the modelling
of the heads (Fig. 127) and the representation of certain
attitudes shows towards a treatment reminiscent of Gothic
sculpture. It seems the result of a parallel development,
all the more curious and noteworthy because wholly uncon-
nected in its course, though perhaps related in its ultimate
causes.
It was also on my second expedition that an occasion
offered in January 1907 to test the popular belief current
in Korla as in other oases along the northern rim of the
Tarim basin about 'sand-buried towns', supposed to have
been sighted in the desert stretching to the south. It is true
that the desert between the line of these oases and the
riverine belt of jungle which accompanies the Tarim and
its northern affluents from the side of Kucha and Bugur is
comparatively narrow and nowhere overrun by high sands.
But the belief is all the same widely held.
Persistent affirmations of Korla hunters about walled
towns, etc., they had seen induced me to make a short
expedition into the unsurveyed desert area between the
Inchike and Charchak river-beds to the south-west of Korla.
Geographically it was interesting, as showing the changes
brought about by shifting river courses. But in the end it
revealed that those elaborate reports had no more sub-