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17. A Nagyr (Dardu) chieftain’s cap of black cloth,
studded with little coils of straw to give the appearanee
of gold studs, with ä plume of short white
feathers and a crimson silk border; very becoming.
18. A girdle, worsted work on coarse grey cloth,
worked with blue, dull red, yellow and green; very
strong.—Dardu.
19. A Red Lama’s holiday cap ; border, crimson
cloth, and upper part embroidered in flower pattem,
with crimson, blue, and green silk.
20. A Balti (Little Tibet) woman’s cap, edged with
pink silk, and two small peaks also edged with silk
behind.
21. Another Balti woman’s cap in plain black cloth.
22. A Ladaki woman’s dress, of thick felted cloth,
with a pattem printed on it. The dress entirely consists
of narrow and thick woollen printed cloth of dark
red, dark blue, and yellow, with circular pattem.
22 a. A thick feit shawl, with long shaggy hair,
for outer wrapper for above.
22 b. A Ladaki woman’s boots with red facings,
and blue cloth at the back.
22 c. Conch-shell Ornament at back of dress.
23. A Grand Lama’s festival dress, of blue Chinese
satin, elaborately embroidered with silk and gold in
form of dragons, &c. and a woven silk border representing
waves and curved bands of colour.—Lhassa.
24. Very loose and wide woman’s trousers, narrower
at the ankle where they are gathered up into
folds.—Balti.
25. Speeimen of a few yards of Kargyil Pattu,
thick woollen cloth, undyed, _of narrow width.—
Ladak.
26. Khoten silk piece or satinet, crimson, shot
with lilac and covered with small yellow pattem.
27. A flonji man’s cap, large and wide, of whitish
fiannel, with a pattem in diamond shape marks.—
Dardu.
28. Two small coarse cotton flags, printed with
mythological figures and inscriptions, to hang on
Chortens.—Ladak.
29. A picture, in distemper and gold, very old,
representing Buddha surrounded by all his disciples,
gods, &c. The figures bear thunderbolts, beads,
iotuses, and sacred implements generally.—Ladak.
30. A picture representing, it is supposed, Lanka(p),
the inventor of the mystic dance, with a large cap.
31. A very ancient picture, in oil, on canvas, representing
a central figure of with a high
conical cap, and in a priest’s cape of scarlet with a
deep border of gold work ; the edge is divided into
coxnpartments, each containing a picture of a Lama,
in high-dress, in a state of prayer or contemplation.
There are also other emblematic figures profusely
scattered across the picture.
32. Two large cups and saucers, and one small
cup and saucer.— Chinese frontier.
33. Two wooden cups, painted, for use in temples
for offerings togods.—Ladak.
34. A lamp, of black clay, in the form of a rudely
executed peacock standing in a three-cornered tray—
one of many of the kind in a Shiah Mcsque at
Skardo.
35. Quartz rock, black miea, sand from the Indus
yielding gold, Ladak tobacco, churns, black bean
grown in the valleys, galls from a species of rose,
lime stalactyte, gypsum, sulphur, green Serpentine;
pebbles (rolled) of quartz rock; bhang and churns;
alpine flowers; a box containing murniäi, sulphur,
rock crystal, micaceous schist, tea, churns, Ladak
grain, maize of different parts of the country, edible
pine, borax, red coarse rice, gau and wheat, &c.,
chiefly collected in Ladak.
36. A Zanskar flute, turned wood.
37. A Shina flageolet, made of two halves, placed
together, and joined by metal and bamboo rings.
38. Another Zanskar shepherd’s cap.
39. A pair of Ladak woman’s ear-lappets made of
feit and edged with für.
40. A pouch and purse from Chinese Tartary,
embroidered in silk.
4L A Ladaki woman’s tassel.
41a. A turquoise head Ornament for Ladaki women,
called Perak.
42. A cap belonging to a Yellow Lama, of Pugdal.
—Zanskar.
43. A pair of sheepskin Tatar gloves, with the
für inside; no fingers, but place for thumb.
44. A copper box, rudely ornamented with brass,
and a turquoise in the middle, to keep charms in.
45. Seven small and one large tablet of stone with
the common Tibetan inscriptions collected on Chortens.
46. A wooden tablet, used as a seal for doors.
47. A shell wristlet, got in Lahul.
48. Eighty-seven figures in clay, some representing
different gods, and some deceased Lamas, whose
ashes are mixed with the clay; also, images of
Chortens, Buddha without a head; groups, in
coloured and gilt clay, of gods and prophets.
49. Two Ladaki pipes; one of iron, the other of
black wood and brass.
50. A Chinese opium pipe used on the Tatary
frontier.
51. A back dress Ladaki ornament, consisting of
Strings of leather and cowsiers.
52. A Phallos made of hard stone.
53. A hand prayer wheel.
54. Chinese chop-sticks.
55. A Ladaki penholder.
56. Another hand prayer wheel, made of brass and
leather.—Ladak.
57. A prayer bell, Drilbu, with a winged figure at
the top.—Ladak.
58. A well executed prayer bell, got at Lama Yuru,
Tibetan Rusicrucians.
59. A religious hand-drum, used by a begging
Lama.
60. A quaint Ladaki key; the lock of brass, the
key of iron.
61. Red tinder pouch, ornamented with brass,
and edged with a steel bar; contains tinder, flint
and steel.
62. Chinese coins in a string, put at the end of
a dress worn by a travelling Lama’s daughter.
63. Permanent prayer wheel, got at Leh Monastery.
64. A Tibetan astronomical table.
65. Earings made of grain, in strings, worn by
Zanskar women.
66. A Khoten tinder pouch, well executed ormolu.
67. A Zanskar woman’s ear ornament of beads
and seeds of different kinds, coloured.
68. A brass brooch.—Ladak.
69. Tea and salt spoon.—Ladak.
70. Ladaki Doqe thunderbolts, the priestly emblem
of authority : made of bell metal.
71. Speeimen of black clay for making pipes.
72. Two very large folio books in long pages, one
book being supposed to be the cosmogony; the other
religious collection of precepts, etc.
73. Pictures on paper; different slips of paper got
out of Chortens; a small prayer book; an inscription
