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no reason to doubt tlieir genuineness. This also applies to the objects 
shown in Plate IV, except No. 1 and Nos. 3-11, which were used in the 
binding of blockprints, and for that reason are of a questionable 
character. Among the objects shown in Plate XIX are numerous 
miniature terracotta figures. Others of a similar kind, but of larger size, 
are shown in Plates X and XI accompanying this Part of the Report. 
These as well as the fragments of pottery now described and figured are 
genuine. They were all obtained from the ancient site hitherto desig¬ 
nated as “ Borazan ” (Introd., pp. xii-xiv), but the real name of which, as 
Dr. Stein has shown, is “ Yotkan, a village of the Borazan tract.” Some 
details as to the conditions in which antiques have been preserved at 
that site, will be found recorded in his preliminary account already quoted. 
It may be noted here that an attempt indeed was made to fabricate 
also entire pieces of pottery. The result, however, was too grotesque 
to deceive. Early in 1898 I received the photographs of two complete 
jars, the fabrication of which there was no difficulty in detecting when 
compared with genuine fragments. From some of the latter, shown in 
Plate VIII, the “ Funeral jar ” which forms the frontispiece of Part I, 
is reconstructed. 
* Respecting the objects in metal, stone, or wood, while some prove 
themselves by their appearance to be undoubted products of the ancient 
Buddhist civilization of Eastern Turkestan, in the case of others their 
age and provenance is quite uncertain. Objects of this kind collect in 
the bazars of Khotan and other towns in Eastern Turkestan, and the 
statements of the Natives regarding them are quite unreliable.* To this 
category belong the two horsemen referred to on page xx of the Intro¬ 
duction, and equally uncertain is the age and provenance of the skull 
there mentioned. 
* There is good reason to believe that certain wood carvings, among 
them the box purchased at Khotan by Captain Deasy and published in 
the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society for April, 1900, 4 have to be 
added to the list of articles from Islam A khun’s factory.* A curious 
resemblance, however, may be noted, of the figures carved on the box, 
to some mud and metal figures, shown in Plate XIII, Nos. 11-13, the 
genuineness of which there seems no reason to question. Assuming 
the spuriousness of the box, such genuine figures may have served the 
carver as models. 
* The fabrication of manuscripts seems to have commenced early 
in 1895. After about two years it was abandoned in favour of the 
easier method of manufacturing blockprints. The forged manuscripts 
4 In Art. XIV, On an ancient bloclcprint from Khotan. 
