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with what is called the millet -pattern, — twenty-one rows of alternately 

 five and six knobs forming horizontal and diagonal lines. The figure in 

 slight relief on the upper end may be a conventionalized Vao-Vieh head. 

 The pieces in 2 and 3 (7.3 cm X 2.2 cm), differ only slightly except that 

 No. 3 is filled to a greater extent with clay matter. On both, the 



Fig. 165. 



Girdle-Clasp of White Jade with Light-Red Tinge. 



motive "the hydra watching its young one" is brought out in higH 

 undercut relief. 1 The three following pieces (8.2 cm X 2.2 cm, 8 cm X 

 1.9 cm, 6.8 cm X i-7 cm) are all engraved with spiral bands and some 

 conventional design at the top which is in Fig. 5 a well outlined monster's 

 head with two projecting fangs. (Compare Fig. 164.) The jade 



1 The same motive, is represented also on two girdle-clasps illustrated by Wu 

 Ta-ch'eng (one of them reproduced in Fig. 162) and on one in the Ku yu t'u. 



