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dozen strings), brooches, armlets, wristlets, bangles,
comb, &c.
6. A Bombay ivory workbox and two stamp boxes.
7. Two paper Cutters, one of agate from Jabalpur,
the otber of sandal wood, inlaid.
8. A Chinese workbox fitted with ivory cases,
drawers, &c. &c. (possibly made at Bombay). A very
good specimen.
Group XI.—Paper Industry.
1. Specimens of Paper from the Panjab, &c.
The specimens elsewhere in the section fully re-
present its manufacture in India, but attention is
here drawn to Malehr Kotla, which in this, as well
as other branches, is still a centre of superior native
workmanship. The rolls of paper from Tibet are
made from some durable material, and have lasted
for many centuries. The Tibetans print on leather,
linen, bai-k, &c. &c., from wooden blocks. It is well
known that they possessed the art of printing long
before we did.
Group XII.—Graphic Arts and Industrial
Drawing.
1. Photographs of Buddhist temple and idoh
2. Photographs of members of tribes on and beyond
Punjab frontier (ehiefly done by Messrs. Burke and
Baker); of Grmco-Buddhistic and other sculpture
from Yusufzai and Swat.
3. Photograph of Lahore College.
4. Maps of India executed by the Trigonometrical
Survey.
A set of excellent photographs have been sent
by the Panjab Committee, which were ehiefly done
by Messrs. Burke and Baker. These photographs
are natuiallya very valualde^djunctto the Collection.
Group XIII. and XIV. (General Machinery and
Surgical Instruments) are only represented by
drawings from Mr. Powell’s excellent book on
the Manufactures of the Panjab.
Group XV.—Musical Instruments.
1. A Panjab wire musical instrument made with
the figure head of a peacock, after which it is called
(Taiis).
2. A Panjab string instrument resting on two lac-
quered geurds, called the Bin.
3. A Kashmiri guitar; Yarkandi, Tibetan, and
Dardu flutes, &c.
4. A Burma gong and striker (wrapped round with
cotton ropes). Is a very pure and long sounding bell.
Attention is drawn to the numerous flutes and
pipes of Zanskar (Tibet), Ladak and Dardistan as
well as to the double pipe which constitutes the
Yarkandi flute. The gong in the collection is an
excellent specimen of bell metal manufacture.
Grouff XVI. and XVII.—(Army amd Navy).
Unrepresented.
Group XVIII.—Civil Engineering, &c.
Casts in mud of statues, and then coloured blue
or bronzed. These were done on original statues,
either in the Lahore Museum or in Dr. Leitner s
collection, Ly a native, a perfect master of that form
of casting, which certainly is quicker and cheaper, if
not so accurate, as casting in gypsum.
Group XIX.—The Private Dwelling House,
&c.
Inferior of a Lahore house (Dhyan Singh’s haveili),
which was used as a College.
Groups XX., XXL, and XXII. are not entered in
the Indian Catalogue.
Group XXIII.—Art applied to Religion.
1. Fourteen idols in brass and three in clay. (The
former from Allahabad, the latter from villages in
the Rawulpindi district).
2. Buddha in brass, from Burmah.
3. Male and female emblems.
4. Utensils, Ornaments, paintings, &c. used in
Buddhist and Hindu worship. Someofthese have
been desenbed elsewhere, and will have to be studied
in connexion with the next group and with the ethno-
graphical catalogue D., page 9.
Group XXIV.—(Objects of Fine Arts of the
fast) hors de concours.
This collection is described elsewhere, vide Col
lection A., page 1.
Group XXV. — Section IV. (Drawing). Vide
detailed Catalogue of Manuscripts, B., page 4.
Group XXVI.—“ Education, Instruction, and
Culture.”
1. Illuminated addresses in Urdu, &c. Specimens
of newspapers started and books published by Dr.
Leitner in the Panjab, and other specimens of his
educational and otlier works. Maps of the Panjab,
the Frontier, Turkistan, &c. Specimens of native
handwriting and toe-writing. Specimens of native
printing in various languages, &c.
2. Papers connected with the establishment and
working of the Panjab University College.
3. Papers, reports, journals of the Anjuman-i-
Panjab, and kindred literary societies in the Panjab.
4. Papers connected with Muhammadan education,
public libraries, art schools, &c. &c.
5. Copies of the “ Indian Public Opinion ” news-
paper.
6. The Journal of the Anjuman-i-Panjab (in Urdu);
the Nafa’-ul-Azim for Arabic-knowing priests; va
rious native journals, such as the Koh-i-noor, the
Panjäbi, &c. &c.
The following is the detail of Dr. Leitner’s pub-
lications exhibited at Vienna :—
Dardistan.—Part III.
The Shina Race—(their legends, riddles, proverbs,
fables, customs, songs, religion, government, and
sub-divisions).—The Encroachments of Kashmir on
Chilas, Gilgit, Hunza, Nagyr, Dareyl, Yasin, and
Chiträl. The Massacre of Women and Children by
Kashmir troops at Yassin.—Chronological History of
Dardistan from 1800 to 18/2, including references
to Mr. Hayward, &c. &c. The book contains 109
closely printed royal quarto pages, exclusive of title-
page, preface, introduction, and table of contents.
Each pari of “Dardistan” is independent of the
other, is sold separately, and is written for a different
dass of readers (Part I. for the philologist; Part II.
for the future traveller in Guraiz, Astor, Chilas,