. Bergens Museums aarsberetning for ... Science. 14 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 ill
. Bergens Museums aarsberetning for ... Science. 14 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-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bergens Museum. Bergen : [The Museum]
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