In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . COPPER COINS EAR-RING WORN BY MEN The jewelry was of local manufacture, and in somecases the pieces of malachite were firmly set, but usuallya kind of paste is used for holding the stones, and conse-quently, pretty as the jewels are, they soon break. The ear-rings are usually better made than the brooches,but the most interesting of all, because simpler and morecharacteristic, are the flat silver charms, such as the one I 269 IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND. SILVER CHARM give in the illustration below, ornamented with primitivedesign. This part


In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . COPPER COINS EAR-RING WORN BY MEN The jewelry was of local manufacture, and in somecases the pieces of malachite were firmly set, but usuallya kind of paste is used for holding the stones, and conse-quently, pretty as the jewels are, they soon break. The ear-rings are usually better made than the brooches,but the most interesting of all, because simpler and morecharacteristic, are the flat silver charms, such as the one I 269 IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND. SILVER CHARM give in the illustration below, ornamented with primitivedesign. This particular one, which is now in my posses-sion, is of great antiquity, the edges being much worndown. It has the lotus pattern in the centre and leaf ornamentations filled inwith lines radiating froma parent stem. Concen-tric circles occupy the in-ner square, which also con-tains circular dots in setsof threes and contiguoussemicircles. Trianglesfilled in with parallellines are a favorite formof ornamentation in Tib-etan work, and perhapsmost popular of all in themind of the Tibetan artist is the square or the lozengeoutline, with a special inclination towards purely geo-metrical patterns, a preference probably inherited fromtheir Mongolian origin. The most interesting objects to me atTucker were the specimens of potterymade by the natives, which is manufact-ured from clay of fine quality, althoughit is not properly beaten previous to be-ing worked into vases, jugs, etc. Moulds ^^i^are used to fashion t


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