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[underlined] Chapter II.[/underlined]
decorated in diverse styles (p1. [[strikethrough]] XVI  [[/strikethrough]]^[8. fig 1]. These differed so much from one another that if found on separate vessels they might have been taken as indicative of some distinction in time or place.

[underlined] Zoömorphic Forms.[/underlined]
Some of the vessels had zoomorphic shapes. Among these, one had the form of a squat, short-legged quadruped, apparently a dog, with widely distended mouth (8). Its body was hollow, and the removable lid closing
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(8) Mr. Kuan refers to this vessel as a [underlined]hu i [虎彝] [Chinese characters][/underlined].
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the opening in its back was ingeniously attached to its curling tail by means of a chain of two links precisely similar, save in size, to those of the snaffle bit commonly used in China during her Bronze Age (p1. [[strikethrough]] XVII [[/strikethrough]] ^[[7. fig. 2]]). We saw likewise a grotesque figure some 30 [[underlined]] cm. [[/underlined]] in height, with huge bulbous eyes and seated upright on its haunches. It held its forepaws raised to the corners of its mouth, as if gnawing something. There were remains of a bronze bar held transeversely in its mouth, while on its head were what I took at the time to be the broken stumps of horns. Later repairs however indicate that from the crown of the creature's head and from the corners of its mouth there originally projected four bronze rods; these, blunt and slightly enlarged at their extremities, curved outward and upward as if to form a rack or stand of some kind (p1. [[strikethrough]] XVIII [[/strikethrough]] ^[[8, fig. 2,]] fig. 4).

[[underlined]]Evidence of a Chariot Burial. [[/underlined]]
Among objects of minor artistic interest we saw the bronze terminal of a chariot-pole and a pair of nave-caps, with other pieces probably forming the ornaments of a chariot. We heard later from eye-witnesses that the woodwork of the car, impregnated with the deposits