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Height, 6)2 inches. Kobe, Japan. (Plate 62 (upper right), Cat. No. 

 154825, U.S.N. M.) 



318. Censer.— Brass. Height, Qji inches. Kobe, Japan. (Cat. 

 No. 254828, U.S.N. M.) 



319. Censer. — Brass. The cover, in open work, is surmounted by 

 a knob. Height, 4 inches. Japan. (Cat. No. 158314, U.S.N. M.) 



320. Censer. — Bronze. The cover, in openwork is surmounted 

 by a crouching mythical animal. Around the circumference are 

 embossed trees with various birds perching in them. Height, 5K 

 inches; diameter, Sji inches. Japan. (Cat. No. 311806, U.S.N.M.) 

 Bequest of Miss Elizabeth S. Stevens. 



321 . Censer. — Bronze. Resting on three legs which are of animal- 

 headed human figures. The lid is surmounted by a mythical animal. 

 Height, ^Yi inches; diameter, 4% inches. Seoul, Korea. (Cat. No. 

 151618, U.S.N.M.) 



322. Bronze figurine. — Being the lid of a censer. Holding in the 

 right hand a basket or pail with flowers; in the raised left, a coin (?). 

 Height, 5K inches. India or Japan. (Cat No. 316346, U.S.N.M.) 

 Collected by Maj. Murray Warner and presented through his widow, 

 Mrs. Gertrude Bass Warner. 



323. incense.— Burma. (Cat. No. 129531, U.S.N.M.) 



324. incense.— Japan. (Cat. No. 130685, U.S.N.M.) 



325. Flower vase. — Brass. Placed before Buddhist shrines. Height, 

 5 inches; diameters, 4 and 2)^ inches. Probably China. (Cat. No. 

 158313, U.S.N.M.) 



326. Lotus cup. — Bronze. Eight-fluted cup set in a quadruple 

 eight-petaled lotus, with short stem and base of an inverted eight- 

 petaled lotus. The hd has 20 perforations for inserting flowers. 

 Height, 4% inches; diameter, 2]^ mches. India (?). (Cat. No. 311796, 

 U.S.N.M.) Bequest of Miss Ehzabeth S. Stevens. 



327. Holy water vase (Tibetan, humha or tsehum). — Made of brass 

 heavily gilded in Persian shape, with a large spherical body and slender 

 bent spout. The neck is short and narrow and terminates in a flar- 

 ing mouth in shape like an overturned bowl. In the top of this is a 

 small circular opening, in which a chased metal tube fits, reaching 

 far down into the vase, and in its upper end a bunch of the sacred Tcusa 

 grass and some peacock feathers. This instrument is the aspergil. 

 The vase has a covering of silk fastened around the neck so as to 

 completely hide the vase. Such coverings are put on most objects 

 used in the temple worship, on the sacred miages, books, etc., prob- 

 ably as a mode of honoring these sacred objects. The water used in 

 these vases has a Httle saffron in it, and sometimes a little sugar. 

 The vase is used especially in the ceremonies connected with the wor- 

 ship of Tsepamed (Amitayus), the Buddha of long life (see No. 163), 



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