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[[underline]] Chapter VII. [[/underline]] 124. almost on its crown. The face, heavily bearded and with long, high nose, was in no way Mongoloid save perhaps for its somewhat prominent cheekbones (pl. 22, fig. 1). (110) On the contrary, making all due allowances, -------------------------- (110) The Hsiung-nu, through living in Mongolia when we first begin to hear of them, seem not to have been Mongols but to have belonged to the Turkic stock; they drifted westward during the early centuries of our Era. --------------------------------- it reminded me rather of Scythian types like some of those appearing on the silver vase from Chertomlyk (Nicopol) and on that of electrum from Kul Oba. We may point out in this connection the occurrence in northwestern China of a high-featured, long-nosed (albeit scantily bearded) non-Mongoloid element in the population, first noted, I believe, by Dr. Paul H. Stevenson, then of the Anatomical Department of the Peking Union Medical College (the "Rockefeller Hospital"), and of which I also have seen numerous examples (see [[underline]] e.g. [[/underline]], chapt. XIV, page 297 and [[underline]] passim [[/underline]] ). Dressed in short trousers and sleeveless tunic and depicted with disproportionately short arms and legs, the figure lay in a contorted attitude, its knees drawn up against the horse's belly above it. In its left hand it grasped a reflex bow, (111) in its right an arrow with which it ------------------------- (111) The reflex or compound bow, made of layers of resilient wood, sinew, and horn glued together, was the characteristic and terribly efficient weapon of the steppe nomad peoples in particular. It was however very early known to the Chinese also (long before they used it on horseback); for it is clearly depicted on the Shang Dynasty "oracle bones". In regard to it, see Bulanda, [[underline]] Bogen and Pfeil [[/underline]], [[underline]] passim [[/underline]], for many interesting details. --------------------------------- seemed to be trying to pierce the animal's flank. That the group was designed to symbolize and commemorate Ho Ch'u-ping's victories over the Hsiung-nu seemed fairly clear. It is of interest to note the existence in Babylon, and thought to date from the period of Nebuchadrezzar, of a sculptured group with an identical [[underline]] motif [[/underline]]---that of a beast (in this case a lion) standing over a
