But when there is a bowl from a Chinese grave site showing such a chair with men wearing the common short-pants with striped serapes of Chiapas 
and women using tump lines to carry things on their backs just like in Mexico, then one has to wonder about the strange Caucasian burials in the Gobi desert west of China.
The bowl was found in a grave dug up in the Heavenly Graveyard.2 In China, they probably know where that is, but outside of China, a graveyard with such a descriptive name could be anywhere on the mainland. It is rare for an ancient set of Chinese characters to be identified by location.
Carrying things on the back with tump-lines is used in many parts of the world. So it is not very rare to see this method of transporting materials in Asia. However, with the style of dress, and the traveling chair so similar to that found in Mexico, it is a bit odd to find such art on a bowl found in a Chinese tomb.
The reason one should take a second look at the Caucasian burials in the Gobi Desert, is the strange tall hat used by a Subashi woman who was interred with her husband by her side. She is thought to be 2,200 years old,3 approximately the same age as the indestructible corpse from Changsha, who used arsenic to stay beautiful. Her husband and her son became dust in their tombs. Several of the corpses have tattoes of the sun on their faces 4
The Gobi burials were blond, or brown-haired people who appeared to be traveling westwards. No one knows where they came from, nor where they were going. The conical hat on the skull is interesting because witches at modern Halloween costume parties are supposed to wear such tall conical hats. Are the Jaina and Gobi tall hats the origin of witch's, astrologer's, and magician's costumes that have remained with us up to modern times. The knowledge of when such hats were actually worn is no longer information we have. 
We have pictures in fairy tale books, but the grave goods of the Xinjiang and the small statue from the island of Jaina off the coast of the Yucatan are the best evidence that hats such as these were worn by traveling people. A similar two-foot tall hat studded with magnificent gold-leaf decorations was discovered just over the Chinese border in 1970.5 My investigation of the migratory patterns of ancient civilizing folk heroes, indicate that "magic," a kind of primitive technology, probably considered to be witchcraft, was often used to open the doors to rulers in many lands. Is it possible that anthropologists are looking at the wrong things to indicate "diffusion" of cultures. Some still insist that all cultures evolved only as individual groups with a "universal mindset" because there was never any transoceanic travel.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1 ______(1968) Mexico: A History in Art, Garden City, New York: A Gemini-Smith Inc./Doubleday and Company, Inc. p. 92.
2 ______ (1961) Chinese Art Treasures, Geneva, Skira, Taiwan, Institute of Chinese Culture, Series A.
3 Hadingham, Evan (1994) The Mummies of Xinjiang Discover the World of Science April (15) 4, Photos by Jeffery Newbury, p. 72.
4 Ibid. p. 77.
5 Ibid. p. 76.
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