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Original Message:   Re: Re: name the owl
Thanks, Nick, you're absolutely right, it does look a bit like an owl, leastways standing upright and from the front. I can't remember what the back of an owl looks like; I'll have to try to find one!

I hadn't thought of it being an owl because they're seldom depicted in Southeast Asian artefacts. But they were common in the art of Han dynasty China, and a lot of archaeologists and historians believe there was a lot of traffic between China and the Indian Ocean by way of Yunnan and Burma (the "southern silk route") in those and slightly later times. I think it gets exaggerated myself, but this little bead might bear the theory out.

Cheers,

Will

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