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scratching the head or loosening knots. 1 If we realize the jade speci- 

 men in Fig. 104 with the chains made in silver and with these five im- 

 plements attached to the ends of the five lower chains, we have the 

 whole affair as still in use. And we may imagine that also at an early 



Fig. 104. 

 Jade Chatelaine from Turkistan (from Ku yti t'u p'u). 



date they were commonly made of silver and but rarely of jade. I 

 was hitherto under the impression that this silver chatelaine may be 

 Chinese in origin, but the evidence furnished above might lead one 



1 In the Chinese specimens, the two latter objects are replaced by a miniature 

 sword and halberd or some other kind of weapon. The tradition of the Turkistan 

 prototype is also preserved in tiny silver bells suspended from chains in many of 

 these chatelaines. 



