The Journal of the Siam Society Vol. XXIX, Part 1-2, 1936 - Khamkoo

PT. II] LuANG BoRIBAL BuRIPHAND 165
colonists arrived they 1nost probably found tt Mon or Proto-Man
population living in the Menam valley. This Mon population was no
doubt mixed up with remnants of earlier tribeR o£ Cluolmn, Proto­
.MalayR and even 1\lelaneRoids aml N egritoes.
'l'o Atate tha,t the Buddha inmge;; from the late period of Dvnmvtlti
have Lawa fa,ceR is not correct either. If the author ·will Rtudy the
photographs tttkon by the reviewer during Mr. II utchinAon's ttnd his
study trip to Bo Lmmg in N O\"ernber 1932, he will see that the Law a
fnces are quite different from thoRo of the Buddha imageR mentioned
hy him. Mr. le l\'Iny, who iR now working on hiR thesis on BudclhiHt
iconography in Siam, and I have for yearR studied the evolution of
the Buddha irnagnH of lhat·avati and we arrived :1t the conclusion
that fl'Om a pure Ouptn, Rtyle in the beginning they deteriorated into
first a Oupta-M on, then Mon-Ouptn, and finally into a pure Mon
typo. 1'he grotes