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Gabriel  Gustafson. 
[No.  7. 
600  of  our  reckoning,  been  imported  into,  and  copied  in  Norway. 
There  is  another  kind  of  monoxylon  found,  which  appears  to 
be  a  development  of  these  book-rests,  but  in  another  direction. 
They  are  certainly  four-armed,  but  in  such  a  manner  that  on  the 
lower  part  of  the  two  arms  in  the  Koran  desks,  short  leaves  are 
cut  out  in  the,  same  manner  as  the  main  arms.  These  are  only 
present  to  afford  the  apparatus  a  support,  and  from  these  four  arms 
no  square  figure  can  be  formed.  Such  an  apparatus  in  the  Leyden 
Museum  is  illustrated  by  Schmeltz  in  Internationales  Archiv  fiir 
Ethnographie,  Vol  II,  Pl.  XII,  fig.  3.  It  is  from  Northern  China 
-and  is  said  to  be  a  pillow  for  the  head  (Nackenschemel).     I  am 
Fig.  9.    Table  petlestal  from  the  Amur  country. 
indebted  to  Captain  Adrian  Jacobsen  of  Berlin  for  information 
and  illustrations  of  a  similar  article  which  was  purchased  by  him 
from  the  natives  of  the  Amur  country,  consequently  not  so  very 
far  from  the  place  of  tinding  the  specimen  lately  mentioned,  and 
which  is  now  preserved  in  the  Museum  fiir  Volkerkunde  in  Berlin. 
Fig.  9  shows  this  specimen  opened  out  in  the  position  in  which 
it  is  used  by  the  natives  of  the  Amur  country ;  in  fig.  10  it  is  shown 
closed  and  in  fig.  11  from  the  side.  As  wiU  be  seen  the  re- 
semblance  to  the  Chinese  article  is  striking,  but  when  Captain 
Jacobsen  found  it,  it  was  used  as  a  pedestal  for  a  table-top.  A 
third  specimen,  which  is  however,  perhaps,  a  little  different  in  con- 
