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tributions, the authors would like to acknowledge Richard Newman at the Museum

of Fine Arts, Boston.

Notes

1. Ross, D. W 1904. The purchase of twenty-six Tibetan paintings from Mme.
   Tangeveil, Paris. Unpublished typed letter to M. S. Prichard. Boston: Museum of
   Fine Arts.


2. An infrared TV camera equipped with a Hamamatsu No. 2606-06 vidicon was
   used at the BMFA.


3. Jackson, D., and J. Jackson. 1984. Tibetan Thangka Painting: Methods & Materials.
   London: Serindia Publications, 15-23.


4. Palache, c., H. Berman, and C. Frondel. 1951. Dana's System of Mineralogy. Vol.
   II. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 165.


5. Shaftel, A. 1986. Notes on the technique of Tibetan thangkas. Joumal of the
   American Institute for Conservation 25 (2):98.


6. Jackson, op. cit., 174.


7. Ibid., 175.


8. Ibid., 75.


9. Kocharov, A., and ChatingJamyang Lama. 1993. Personal communication. Dhar­
   amsala, India: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives.


10. Ibid.


11. Archumg Lama and Gega Lama. 1993. Personal conmumication. Kathmandu,
    Nepal.


12. Jackson, op. cit., 17 7.


13. Ibid.


14. Palache, op. cit., 543.


15. Jackson, op. cit., 78.


16. Ibid., 176.


17. Gettens, R. J., and G. L. Stout. 1966. Painting Materials: A Short Encyclopaedia.
    New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 120.


18. Kocharov, op. cit.


19. Megmar. 1993. Personal communication. Dharamsala, India: Library of Tibetan
    Works & Archives.


20. Jackson, op. cit., 82.


21. Palache et aI., op. cit., 268.


22. FitzHugh, E. W n.d. Orpiment and realgar. In Artist's Pigments: A Handbook of
    their History and Characteristics, Vol. III. Forthcoming.


23. Jackson, op. cit., 176.


24. Ibid., 80.


25. Ibid., 174


26. Makaras are mythological sea creatures. Garudas are guardians of the sky (part
    bird and part human).


27. Jackson, op. cit., 92.


28. Kocharov, op. cit.


29. Wallert, A. 1986. Fluorescent assay of quinone, lichen, and redwood dyestuffs.
    Studies in Conservation 31 (4):1 45-55.


30. Jackson, op. cit., 113.


31. Ibid., 93.


32. Ibid., 81.


33. Ibid., 82.


34. Paintings at LACMA were surveyed with an infrared TV camera, Quantex QVC
    2500, equipped with a bandpass interference filter (1.6 micron wavelength) to
    eliminate chromatic aberrations of the lenses.


35. Kossolapov, A. J. 1993. An improved vidicon TV camera for IR-reflectography.
    ICOM Committee for Conservation Preprints, 25-31.

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