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FIG. 2. The body, wrapped
and tied.
was covered by an unusual trapezoidal cloth of dark brown silk with ;zn-brocade trimming and a
dark yellow lining; openings for the eyes and nose had been cut in the fabric. (Normally face
covers [mingmu] were square, made of black silk with red lining, and did not have openings. 14 )
A silk belt, from which jade and glass pendants were suspended, adorned the woman's waist.
The silk wardrobe, the silk shrouds, and other silk textiles — as well as the other burial
objects of high quality that were found in the coffin — are evidence of the custom of lavish
burials practiced by the aristocratic upperclass; the patterned silk fabrics themselves document
a flourishing regional silk weaving industry that catered to the tastes of a fashion-conscious
society. DK
1 Yu 1995,130 -131.
2 Kuhn 19923, 40 - 65.
3 Hubei 1991. Five tombs were excavated at the Baoshan
site.
4 Hubei 19843. Five hundred and fifty-eight tombs were
found at the site between November 1975 and February
1976; 349 of these are dated to the Warring States period.
5 Hubei 19853.
6 At the site of Yutaishsn in Jisngling county alone, 248
tombs of this type have been excavsted: see Kuhn 1992,
41; a typology of Chu tombs in the county of Jiangling wss
suggested by Guo 1982,158; on the social ranking of this
tomb see Peng Hao 1982,12.
7 Kuhn i996b, 16 -17.
8 The coffin's silk casing is most probsbly the shazhao, used
to concesl the coffin on its wsy to the grave site; it may
have been pkced on top of the coffin in the grave. For
class differentiations in the use of silk, see Zhang Changshou
1992, 49-52; Kuhn 1995C, 65-66.
9 Rawson 1996,144.
10 Hubei 19853,17, 23: fig. 24, pi. 16:1.
11 The typicsl jin brocade weave of the Warring States
period was 3 polychrome two- or three-series warp-fsced
compound tabby.
12 Goepper 1995, 342.
13 Kuhn i995b, 217.
14 Hubei 19853, 97.
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