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I 508
arranged into books, 766 ; on figured
silk, from Limes, 720, 785 sq. ; on Chien-fo-tung pictorial remains, 836,
846 ; on textile fabrics, 897 sqq., 902. angel-like figures, winged busts of, see
Mirân painted dado.
animal-headed demons, paintings of, 891,
943, 979, 994 sq., 1087.
animal-headed (rat?) divinity : on painted
panel, 165, 174 ; on fresco fr., 1277,
1282.
animals : bones of, found, 481, 600, 684 ;
a. mentioned in Tibetan docs., 1465. figures of: on frescoes, 506, 52o;
on seals, 231, 439 ; on stucco pilasters, 487 ; stucco relief frs., naturalistic,
1193; on textiles, 466, 483. 904 sqq., go8 sqq., 912 ; of Cretan type, 483 ; confronting, 908 sqq., 912; on wooden
beam, 397, 443-
heads : appliqué relief on pottery fr.,
1107 ; terra-cotta, 1279, 1281 sq. paintings of, 852, 1077 ; on paper, 967 ; on wooden panel, 1202.
World of Animals, horse as emblem for, in silk painting, 1077.
See also grotesques, masks, antelopes, camels, lions, &c.
ankus, on fresco fr., 177, 1087. antechapels : (Ch'ien-fo-tung) 793 sqq.,
927 ; (Wan-fo-hsia) I I 1 o ; (Kichikhassar) 1164 ; (' Ming-oi ') 1187,
1190, 1198.
antelopes : paintings of, 847 n. 4, 854,
854 n. 44, 859.
heads : stucco relievo frs., 1267 n. I2,
I272 ; terra-cotta, 1282.
anterooms : (Lapchuk) 1156 ; (Khbra) 1225.
anthemion, see designs.
anthology, Skr. MS. fr. of, 1450. Anthony, supposed Tibetan rendering of name on ink-seal, 465, 480.
anthropology : (Kalâm) 24 ; (Chitral) 26 ; (Wakhân) 64 ; (Pakhpu) 87.
anthropometrical work, 1 168, 1300, 1304, 1319, 1323.
T. A. Joyce on physical anthropology of Chinese Turkestan and the Pamirs, 1351 sqq. ; method of dealing with measurements, 1351 ; distribution of people, 1352 ; measurements dis-
cussed, 1353 sqq. ; head-length, head-breadth, cephalic index, nasal length,
nasal breadth, nasal index, 1353, 1380, 1383 ; facial _ breadth, total facial
length, total facial index, upper facial length, 1354, 5381, 5384; upper facial index, 1355, 1381, 1384 ; head circumference, 1355, 5385, 5383; stature,
span, stature-span index, 1355, 13$2, 1384 ; differential index, 1355 ; con-
clusions from measurements, 1357 ; descriptive characters of people, 5358,
5387 sq.; skin-colour, 1358, 1362 sqq., 5387; hair (colour, quantity, &c.), 1358,
GENERAL INDEX
1362 sqq., 1387 ; eye-colour, 1359,
1362 sqq., 1388 ; ' Mongolian fold ',
1359, 1362 sqq., 1388 ; comparison with other peoples, 1359, 1388 ; final conclusions, s 36o.
antiques, careful packing of, at Khotan, I 317. See alsoseparate Index of objects found.
Aornos, rock fortress of, 2, 4.
Apa-luk, name of pass at head of Bashgol Valley, I I n.
Apalâla, Naga, 13.
Aparimitâyula-sû/ra, MS. frs. of : Skr.,
1433 (?); Khotanese, 914, 5454-5• Aparimiliiyur-Hama-mahàyünasulra, Ti-
b.tan MS. fr. of, 1470.
Apastein 'al yezd-in, reading of Pahlavi characters on intaglio, 123.
Apollo (?), figure of, on ruby intaglio, I I6. appliqué, see pottery, stucco, terra-cotta. apricot leaf found, 478.
apricot (?) wood, log of, from Niya, 267. apricots, dried, mentioned in Tibetan docs., 1465
Apsaras : in paintings, 88 r, 885 n. I I, 887, 5049, 5053,1056 ; in embroidery picture, 896, 984 ; on fresco panel, 929. See Gandharvi.
Aptaba, 49 ; 'Aptaba'-like jugs, in walli.ainting, I1I2.
Ara-tam : position of, 5151 ; irrigation near, s 152 ; small snow-fall at, 1153. Buddhist temple ruins at, 1152 sqq.; stucco relief frs. found, 1152, 1158;
destructive effects of fire, atmospheric conditions at, 1152 ; cave-shrines cut into clay ridge, 1153 ; colossal Buddha statues in, ib. ; remains of mural paintings, ib. ; date of shrines, 1154•
Arab paper, early manufacture of, 673.
arabesques, see designs.
Arabian Limes, 729. •
Arabic, sgraffito in, on cave wall, s s ;
Arabic writing on wooden tablet, s 235;
paper fr. in cursive Arabic, 5289. Arabs in China, 1289. See also Ta-shah. Arach, ruins of watch-stations guarding
defile of, 131 r sq.
Aralchi ' Mahalla', at Charchan, 302. Aramaic-looking script (Early Sogdian), see Sogdian.
arbours : remains of, (Niya) 237 sq., 24o ; (Shui-i) 626 ; (Farhâd - Bégyailaki) I 25o.
arcade, on painted wood-carving, 1197, I256.
archaistic Zeus, see classical designs.
Archalik, locality near Kiz-kurghan, 75 n. arches : on bronze fr., (Yôtkan) 1s8 ; decorated wooden, (Khadalik) 195 ;
(' Ming-oi') 1187 sq., 107, 120I,
I216 sq., 5222 ; Indian horseshoe arches, 1197, 1216; in architecture, on
fresco fr., (Mirân) 506, 544 ; interlacing, on bronze mirror fr., (Khotan) 121 ; trefoil, in Gumbat porch, 23 ;
on relievos, (Yan-kang) 849 n. 16. See also designs.
architectural decoration : (Mirân) 485 sqq. ; chronology of, 491 ; frs. found,
(Ak-terek) 139, 147, 152 ; (Khâdalik)
190; (Niya) 235; (Lou-lan) 378,
396, 402 ; (' Ming-oi') 1193-5, 1204,
I 21 I-13 ; (Farhad-Bég-yailaki) 1257 ;
stucco relief frs., 539, 147, 152, 1193,
1195, 1204, I2II-13; wood carving,
190, 235, 378, 396, 402, 1257 ; wooden pins for, see pins. See also designs.
architectural features : of Gumbat ruin, 23 ; of Rawak, 128 ; of Mirân struc-
tures, 486 sq., 493 sq., 512 sq., 534 sqq. ; of Limes magazine, 712 sq.; of Ch'ienfo-tung shrines, 793 ; of Turfa,n ruins, I I61 sqq. ; of ' Ming-oi ' shrines, 1185 sq.
architectural setting, Chinese, in paintings, 851, 887, 1054.
architectural tiles, stucco relief frs. of,
I 189, I 198, I200, I2IO, I218, I22I sq. architrave, on carved wooden cantilever,
1257.
Arghai-bulak, spring identified with Hsüan-tsang's miraculous ' spring of the Master A-fu', 1178.
Arhats: Hsüan-tsang as canonized Arhat, 935 ; legends of A., 63, 77, 89, 95 ; paintings of, 882, 98o ; stucco relief fr. of, 1173.
aridity of climate : accounts for abundance and condition of remains along
Tun-huang Limes, 721, 741 ; and of Ch'ien-fo-tung MSS. and art relics, 794, 811; a. in Sarikol, 75; in outer T'ien-shan ranges, 1303 ; in K'un-lun ranges, 1325.
Ariora, see Agrôr.
Ariora-Keshemur, mentioned by Marco Polo, I t.
Aristophanes, on patent Laconian key, 192.
Arka-kuduk Tim, 134 ; Stûpa of, ib., 5266.
Arka-tâgh, gold mines in, 300.
Arkalik, remains of, 134.
armlets represented : on frescoes, 169, 175 sqq., 519 ; on painted panel, 185 ; on stucco relievo, 79o; in paintings, 937, x061, 1065, 1074.
armour: bronze, see s.v.; armour scale(?), iron fr., 1293 ; wooden, 374, 433•
representations of : on frescoes, 184, 52o sq. ; on stucco relievos, 190, 465,
1193, 1209 sq., 1277, 5283; in paintings, 464 sq., 853 n. 37, 873, 940 ; on pottery, 465, 477.
scale-armour, leather : (Niya) 225, 236, 246, 463 ; (Mirân) 463 sqq.,
477 sqq.; (Tun-huang) 759; shape and size, 463 sqq., 477, 481, 873 ; lacing and fastening, 463 sq., 481, 483; overlapping of scales, 464 sq., 481,
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