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On the 26th, while Mr. Yiian went away on some special geological 

 mission, I started for Chi-san Hsien to have a look at the so-called 

 T'ang wall paintings at Hsiao-ning Ts'un, some of these paintings hav- 

 ing been recently sold to curio-dealers who sent them to Peking for 

 sale. Hsin-hua-shih is a Buddhist temple built in the 12th year of 

 K'ai-huang of the Sui Dynasty near Ch'a-tien-chieh. It has been 

 destroyed and repaired many times ; but the front hall still retains 

 some reminiscence of T'ang architecture. It is in the central and 

 the third hall that the walls are i)ainted on three sides. The paintings 

 of the side walls of the third hall and those of the southern wall 

 of the central hall (opening towards the north) have been taken 

 away by curio-dealers. The rest is still intact ; and the date is to be 

 found on the northern wall of the third hall, being the zvu-hsii year 

 of Yiian (A. D. 1298 or 1358). The courtyard between the front hall 

 and the central hall was locked, and my guide assured me that there 

 was nothing worth seeing inside the yard. Nevertheless, I had him 

 o])en it for me. in spite of his assurance, and by sheer accident I 

 found the protruding corner of a stone which lay buried in the ground. 

 I asked the villagers to dig it out for me, and it proved to be a votive 

 stela (fig. 142) carved at the time when the temple was first built. 

 This little discovery rounded out my trip, and from this day on I 

 marched directly northward and returned to Peking. 



NOTES 



1. Anthropometrical measurements at Chieh-hsiii. 



Through the kind arrangements of Mr. Huang Tzii-sen, Magistrate of 

 Chieh-hsiu Hsien, I was able to measure 86 of the natives of this District who 

 are serving in the Army Training Camp and the Police Court. With the 

 exception of my series of Huang-p'i and Huang-kang, this is the largest of any 

 series of anthropometrical measurements made in any one district. The follow- 

 ing 13 measurements were taken of each individual : stature, auditor}^ height, 

 sitting height, head length, head breadth, liorizontal circumference, minimum 

 frontal diameter, bizygomatic diameter, nasion-menton height, nasion-prosthion 

 height, nasal height, and nasal breadth. Observations were also made of the 

 following descriptive characters : hair color, eye, brow, chin, shape of nose, 

 malar bone, shape of face, prognathism, teeth. 



2. Pottery Sherds from Chiao-t'ou-ho. 



The total number of sherds is 127. Of these, 42 are painted. Of the painted, 

 20 are with rims : 6 with bent rim, i with thickened rim, and 13 wrth plain 

 rim. The paint used is black. The ground color varies from light brown to 

 dark brown. The patterns consist of triangles with three sides concave, or with 

 two sides concave and one side straight or convex ; straight lines ; crescent 

 moon ; big round dot ; cross-hatched lines ; shape of X with horns elongated 

 into straight lines ; and parallel lines with big dots between. Of the 85 un- 

 painted, 21 are gray in color and are decorated with incised lines in parallel, 



