Afart from their archaeological inforest these tomb tiles, like the pottery tomb figures of later periods, throw. a flood of light on certain phases of the life and culture of the period to which they belong, a period of great importance in Chitia's ise tory, since it was then that the people of Chou were defeated by the more warlike Ch'ins under Shih Huangeti, the builder of the Great Wall These warlike people, obviously closely con nected in their culture with the Huns of Central Asia, were, like the latter, reatly addicted to the chase, and this is revealed by the designs on the tomb tiles here discussed. "These show Ihunting scenes as well as many Kinds fo the Mongol conquest and the founding of the Yuan Dynasty (A.D. 1260-1368), These horses are she ther with headstalls on oF without Jany trappings whatsoever, and some Jot the scenes in which they appear [suggest that they might even have formed the quarry of the hunters. Tu this connection it Is interesting to note that the horses' being ridden have more the appearance of the typical Mongol pony, which thus may have been the regular mount of the Chins, while the larger and finer steeds' represented the chariot horses of the Chous. With the defeat of the Chous these horses may have be-Jeome feral as was the ease with the horses taken to. America cly the JSpanish conquistadors. Be that as it may, the two types of horses are definitely shown in these tomb tile pictures, the one mounted, the other always without riders.
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