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a really faithful reproduction of an ancient tiger- jade, or which is more 

 probable, a much more elaborate design. It can hardly be imagined 



Fig. 8s. 

 Jade Carving of Tiger, Reconstruction (from Ku yii i % u p'u). 



Fig. 87. 

 Bronze Sonorous Instruments of the Chou Period (from Po ku t'u, edition of 1603) 



that this complicated structure adorned the jade specimens of the Chou, 

 especially if we compare it with the simpler types of Wu. The style 

 of drawing in Fig. 88 is, in my opinion, traceable to ancient Siberian 



