Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Buddhist Art in the United States National Museum The collection described in this catalogue includes material from Further India and the Far East. That from the former region con sists chie y in a collection of about 200 specimens coming from the Laos, a division of the Widespread Thai or Shan race and ethno graphically related to the Siamese, in indo-china. The contribu tions from the Far East are divided between China, Japan, and Tibet. The greater part of the ...
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Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Buddhist Art in the United States National Museum The collection described in this catalogue includes material from Further India and the Far East. That from the former region con sists chie y in a collection of about 200 specimens coming from the Laos, a division of the Widespread Thai or Shan race and ethno graphically related to the Siamese, in indo-china. The contribu tions from the Far East are divided between China, Japan, and Tibet. The greater part of the specimens from the last-named country has been described by the late William Woodville Rockhill in Notes On The Ethnology of Tibet.l They are included in the present cata logue for the sake of completeness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
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