Bulletin, Issues 55-57The Museum, 1983 - China |
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Page 134
... mounted horseman turned back in his saddle , bow tautly drawn before a leaping , open - jawed tiger ( figs . 7a , b ) . The compact bow is that of the nomad ; the clothing and headdresses are more equivocal , suggesting both nomad and ...
... mounted horseman turned back in his saddle , bow tautly drawn before a leaping , open - jawed tiger ( figs . 7a , b ) . The compact bow is that of the nomad ; the clothing and headdresses are more equivocal , suggesting both nomad and ...
Page 143
... mounted horsemen on a Chinese state occurred in the ninth century , when the Hsien - yun attacked Chou forces in the region of the Wei river ; Pulleyblank , however , puts this event two centuries later , ca. 780 B.C. , and rejects a ...
... mounted horsemen on a Chinese state occurred in the ninth century , when the Hsien - yun attacked Chou forces in the region of the Wei river ; Pulleyblank , however , puts this event two centuries later , ca. 780 B.C. , and rejects a ...
Page 146
... mounted archer , the animal combat , fleeing animals , and the representation of mountains and in the adoption of a new conceptual and pictorial formulation : the landscape as context for human activity . - To say the Chinese absorbed ...
... mounted archer , the animal combat , fleeing animals , and the representation of mountains and in the adoption of a new conceptual and pictorial formulation : the landscape as context for human activity . - To say the Chinese absorbed ...
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