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] and designs, are among the many lacquered articles produced. For bowls, the framework is of very fine woven bamboo, mingled in the best specimens with horse-hair. On this are imposed successive layers of the exudation of the thitsi tree. On the lacquer surface a pattern is worked by successive incisions filled with colouring matter, orange, yellow, red, black, or green. The process is painfully slow

and laborious; the effect is admirable. The industry is said to have been brought to Pagan in the middle of the 11th century. A tube of lacquer work dated 1274 A.D. has been found there in a pagoda.

Images of the Buddha, of conventional types, are carved