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around, while at the top and on the left side there are numerous traces 

 of a wider band of the same color, painted over yellow ochre. The 

 difference in the preservation of the inner and outer parts of the border 

 may possibly be due to the fact that the former was painted over the 

 dark brown of the interior. 



Within the border the most clearly defined portion of the composition 

 is the window in the upper right corner. There is a wide and deep white 

 sill. The profile of the thick side-wall on the left is reddish brown in 

 color, with an inner edge of dark brownish red. The entire field of 

 vision disclosed by the window is blue. On the window-sill there is 

 a heap of objects of somewhat uncertain character lying on an elliptical 

 drab mat. The following is an enumeration of them: 



2 large brown platters with sloping sides. 



3 yellow objects, probably gourds. 



i tall slender brown jug lying on its side. 



2 brown staves lying crossed on top of the preceding objects. They seem to 



be made of grapevine, which is untwisted at one end. 

 2 brown objects hanging from near opposite ends of one of the staves, perhaps 



the bodies or skins of small animals (not hares), perhaps sausages. 



1 darge pine cone. 



i grayish object resembling a fungus. 



2 wreaths, consisting of hoop and straight end, in brownish white. They hang 



over the edge of the sill. 

 Several plants with tall slender whitish leaves. Some of them rise above the 

 heap, others hang over the inner edge of the sill. 



Beneath the window there is a rather broad ledge or floor which is 

 white in the foreground, brownish red at the left end and light brown 

 at the back, where it is not very clearly distinguished from the front 

 upright wall. On this floor there are several objects. At the left a 

 large whitish and greenish gray bird, perhaps a female pheasant, seems 

 to be sitting on a sort of nest. Next to her on the right there is a cor- 

 responding male bird painted in a variety of colors. The head (except 

 the comb), the back of the neck, the lower part of the wing and the 

 under tail feathers are yellow. The comb and breast are reddish brown; 

 most of the tail, as well as a line along the back, is in blue. The central 

 part of the wing is red with light brown spots. In the foreground there 

 are two staves like those in the window-sill, and the spiral end of a third. 

 At the left end of the white part of the floor there is a reddish brown 

 platter, somewhat larger than those described above, tilted against the 

 wall. At the right of the male bird there is an uncertain object in red- 

 dish brown, perhaps a vase. In the extreme right corner of the floor 

 there is a reddish brown pitcher with base, handle and long curved beak, 

 lying on its side. The left end-wall of the room is brown like the front 



