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Small Bronzes from Northern Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

Ellis H. Minns
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Early in 1929 the British Museum acquired a lot of two dozen small bronzes. Mr. Reginald Smith gave a preliminary account of them and illustrated eighteen in the British Museum Quarterly. The Society is indebted to the Trustees of the British Museum for the loan of these plates (our 1 and 11). Mr. Smith was good enough to suggest that I should treat them in greater detail in the Antiquaries Journal.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , January 1930 , pp. 1 - 23
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1930

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page 1 note 1 B.M.Q. iii (1929), 4, pp. 97–9Google Scholar , pl. l, li.

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page 12 note 3 Professor Pelliot, , Documents, i, p. 11Google Scholar , is a little hard on me for rash remarks on mirrors made fifteen years ago: I long ago had observed that I had misunderstood what Professor Giles told me orally about the writing of the Chinese words.

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page 20 note 1 Mater, for Arch. Cauc. (M.A.K.) viii, xcii, 13.

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page 20 note 4 Such as Chantre, 11, xxvi, 2, lvii, 1, 2, 3.

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