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Two Notes on Indian Head-dress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

C. L. Fábri
Affiliation:
Leyden

Extract

The importance of the history of costumes and fashions cannot be emphasized enough. Concerning India practically nothing has been published in this line, barring some discussions on the costumes of the Mughal period. A thorough examination of small details would possibly yield very valuable results, and the following two brief notes may be considered as a modest contribution to such a study of Indian head-dress.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1931

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References

page 597 note 1 Lea antiquités bouddhiques de Bāmiyān, Paris, Van Oest, 1928Google Scholar.

page 599 note 1 Cunningham, Bharhut, plates xv, xxx. Cf. also xxviii, xxxi, xl.

page 600 note 1 Fig. 10 is from the British Museum yakṣiṇī, and 11 after Maisey, Sánchi, pl. xxiv. No better photograph was at my disposal.

page 600 note 2 Maisey, pi. xiv.

page 600 note 3 I have already drawn attention to the valuable collection of MrSchwaiger, , London, in my paper “A Græco-Buddhist Sculpture representing the Buddha's Descent from the Heaven of the thirty-three Gods”, in Ada Orientalia, vol. viii, 1930, p. 291Google Scholar, note 2. A discussion of the hair in many small spiral curls will be found in my paper to be published in the Études d'orientalisme Linossier, Paris.

page 600 note 4 In the new edition (1930) unnumbered fig. on p. 103. Cf. also: Archl. Survey of West. India, No. 10, plate facing p. 67.