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Ancient grave goods in East and Southeast Asia were sometimes wrapped in cloth before they were buried. I have a Neolithic calcified jade bi from North China that has the marks of a cloth wrapping deeply impressed in the stone. I don't have photos of that but here is one of a bronze bowl from southern Vietnam that is about 2000 years old. So far it hasn't proved possible to discover what the material was; probably cotton, but I wouldn't rule out the possibility of it being some kind of silk, either imported or locally produced. I think this practice tells us something about the value that the living placed on the items that they buried with their dead. will All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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