202 Field Museum of Natural History — Anth., Vol. X. 



presumably worn duiing life-time and cherished, and which he there- 

 fore desired to have buried with him. 



The piece in Fig. i (9 cm long, 2.9 cm wide and 3 mm thick) of 

 this Plate is a grass-green jade full of earth incrustations, unorna- 

 mented, in the shape of a crescent. The two perforations at the ends 

 have been bored only from one side where they measure 5 mm in diam- 

 eter, while it is only 3 mm on the lower side. The lower edge has been 

 much affected and somewhat weathered out by chemical influences 



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Fig. 100. 



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Fig. ioi. 

 Jade Lower Side-Pieces of Girdle-Pendant. 



which seem to have also darkened the original color in some places. 

 In color, this specimen agrees with those designated by Wu as onion- 

 green and in form with that in Fig. 100, explained by him as a lower 

 side-piece of a girdle-pendant, and I feel therefore justified in applying 

 the same identification to our specimen. The jade ornament pub- 

 lished in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin (Vol. VI, p. 55, 1908) 

 must be reckoned, in my opinion, as belonging to the same class. 



Figures 102 and 103 are head-pieces of girdle-pendants illustrated 

 in the Ku yii t'u p'u, alleged to be Han, but in all likelihood not older 

 than the T'ang period, especially the design in Fig. 103, an inverted 

 lotus-leaf with turned-up edges. 1 But the Ku yii t'u p'u has well 



1 Pictorial influence is manifest in it and admitted in the Chinese text by the 

 words: "It is refined and sublime like painting." 



