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8870) defined by the dictionary Shuo wtn as an ornament for the 

 upper part of a knife sheath made of jade for the emperor and of gold 

 (or metal) for the vassal princes; the other called pi (Giles No. 8929) 



Fig. 181. 



Sword-Guard of Green Jade with Black Stripes 



and Russet Dots in them. 



for the adornment of the lower end of a sheath or scabbard. We 

 know also that this class of objects was buried with the dead, for we 

 read in the Ku yii Vu (appended to the Po ku Vu, Ch. 2, p. 14) where 

 three sets of them are figured, that in regard to the first of them, Liu 

 Yen-siang had obtained it in the Western Capital (Si-ngan fu) , and that 

 according to tradition it was found in the grave of Kao Sing (see 

 below) . 



