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of the figures is Siamese or Cambodian, is also are the costumes of similar figures in Plates VIII. fig. 2, IX., IXa, and XII. from the same place. The figures are not clothed in Burinese fashion.
I would draw attention to the head-dress of theso figures, because if compared with that of the “Shîn Buddhas" and many non-Barmese figures shewn in Plates Ia, IV., VI. and VII., as found in the caves about Maulmain, it will be seen that they are identical, and give us a clue as to when they must have been deposited.
In Plate VII., at the point indicated in the index plate below, is a remarkable seated figure of the Cambodian type, as shewn in Plate XIII.
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Index to Plate VIT. Close to the Kyaikp'un Pagoda is a large metal image of the Buddha overgrown now by tbe roots of a huge pipal tree. In the illustration of this in Plate VIII. fig. 2 are to be seen specimens of glazed bricks, shewing precisely the class of portraits' above described. The inference is that whatever the date of the Kyaikp'un Pagoda itself may be, that is also the date of the bricks seen in the Plate.
The structures in the Zainganning Quarter, whence these figures came, can be most safely attributed to a time before Dhammachett (the middle of the 15th century), and if the
15 The great Mahlehti Pagoda in Zaingabaing was, however, not built till the 16th century, and the Kalyéni Deng was built by Dhammachet.
