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"I've not read or reviewed it, and wonder if anyone here has read Elizabeth Wayland Barber's The Mummies of Urumchi.

Yes, I've read it three times. It is an excellent book.

Victor Mair recruited a number of experts to go examine the Caucasian mummies he discovered in the back-room of the Urumchi museum. Barber was one of those (textile) experts.
J. P. Malloy and Victor Mair wrote a book, The Tarim Mummies, about the same subject and is even better than Barber's book. As FReeper JimSEA said, "I couldn't put it down." I've read it 2-3 times too.

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The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West by J. P. Mallory and Victor H. Mair	The Mummies of Urumchi by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

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