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Chinese Clay Figures 



the coat (Plate XXXI, Fig. 1); the plates are distinctly represented by- 

 parallel rows of lines executed in black ink and continued on the back 

 (Fig. 42) ; the lines are somewhat rounded at the top, and leave no doubt 

 of the real shape of these armor-plates. In Fig. 2 of the same Plate 

 these lines are omitted, or may have been worn out. 



Fig. 42. 

 Back of Clay Statuette represented on Plate xxxi, Fig. 1. 



As those two statuettes represent the typical armed warriors of 

 Shen-si Province, so the pair on Plate XXXII illustrates the character- 

 istic types current in Ho-nan, and is for this reason inserted here, though 

 not vested with plate armor. Of powerful martial appearance, "armed 

 at point exactly, cap-a-pie," these heroes valiantly lean on the hilts of 

 their straight swords resting between their feet, — not dissimilar to a 



