Plate I     BALTIC SPEECH AREA, TWELFTH-THIRTEENTH CENTURIES (In the East, it extended deep inside Russia). Dialects: (1) Prussian Subdialects, now dead (see pp. 66, 67); (2) Lithuanian—Aukštaičiai in the East, Žemaičiai in the West; (3) Kuršas (Curonian); (4) Žiemgala (Semigallian); (5) Sėla (Selonian); (6) Latvian (Lett). Dialects under (3), (4) and (5) now merged into (2) and (6).

Plate II     BRONZE AGE INDO-EUROPEANS (Second Millennium B.C.) From J.A. Hammerton, Universal History of the World, Vol. II, Coloured Plate at p. 925.

Plate III     ARYANS (SIXTH CENTURY B.C.): INDIANS BRINGING TRIBUTE, LED BY PERSIAN OFFICER Achæmenian Frieze from Persopolis: the Indian Leader in long Uttarīya and Sirōvēṣṭa, Attendants (one with a Carrying Pole) in loin-cloth.

Plate IV     A MEDE (MADA), IRAN From the Persian Work: Pūšāk-i-Bāstānī-i-Irānīān, “Ancient Costumes of the Iranians,” by Jalīl Zīā-Pūr, Tehran, Persian Year 1343, Plate 30.

Plate V     A PERSIAN (PARSA), IRAN From the Persian Work on the “Ancient Costumes of the Iranians,” by Jalīl Zīā-Pūr, Plate 49.

Plate VI     PERSIAN DRESS, SIXTH CENTURY B.C. From: Pūšāk-i-Bāstānī-i-Irānīān, Plate 45.

Plate VII     AN ARYAN (PERSIAN) LADY OF RANK, SIXTH CENTURY B.C. From: Pūšāk-i-Bāstānī-i-Irānīān, Coloured Plates 76 and 77.

Plate VIII     INDO-ARYAN KING AND POET-SAGE (Sudās and Vasiṣṭha in the Ṛg-Veda) Drawings by Sculptor Sunil Pal, Calcutta.

Plate IX     INDO-ARYAN YOUNG MAN AND WOMAN (Satyavān and Sāvitrī from the Mahābhārata) Drawings by Sculptor Sunil Pal, Calcutta.

Plate X     ANCIENT BALT (LITHUANIAN) GIRL AND MATRON Coloured Plate No. 567 in Lietuvių Liaudies Menas (Lithuanian Folk Art), Vol. I, Vilnius, 1958.

Plate XI     YOUNG BALT (LITHUANIAN) WARRIOR From Coloured Plate No. 566 in Lietuvių Liaudies Menas (Lithuanian Folk Art), Vol. I, Vilnius, 1958.

Plate XII     ANCIENT BALT (LATVIAN) HERO AND MAIDEN (Lačplēsis and Laimdota, from Andrejs Pumpurs’s Epic) Coloured Illustration by Latvian Artist Girts Vilks (1948).

Plate XIII     BALT SAGE-PRIEST SINGING DAINA AND PLAYING KANKLES (BALT HARP OR ZITHER): MOTHER AND CHILD LISTENING Relief in Plaster (1943), by the Lithuanian Sculptor Juozas Mikėnas.

Plate XIV     A BALT (LATVIAN) PANTHEON Left to right: (1) Auskelis (Morning Star); (2) Dievs (God); (3) Laima; (4) Māra; (5) Mēness (Moon-God); (6) Saule (Sun-Goddess); (7) Saules Mieta (Sun’s Daughter); (8) Perkōns. Below, on left, Mother and Son, and on right, Old Singer-Priest with kokle (psaltery). From Coloured Painting by Latvian Artist Ansis Cīrulis.

Plate XV     SUN-GODDESS SAULE IN HER CAR, WITH THE GOD ŪSIŅŠ AND HER DAUGHTERS IN ATTENDANCE From Coloured Picture by the Latvian Artist Jēkabs Bīne.

Plate XVI     LAIMA SPINNING BALT MAIDEN GODDESS OF FATE, GOOD LUCK AND HAPPINESS By the Latvian Sculptor Kārlis Zemdega (1936).

Plate XVII     THE KING OF THE ŽALTYS (GRASS-SNAKES) AND EGLĖ Stained Glass Window at Druskininkai By the Lithuanian Artist K. Morkūnas.

Plate XVIII     LATVIJA MĀTE (LATVĪYĀ MĀTĀ) MOTHER EARTH AS THE MOTHER-LAND OF THE BALTS with her Wounded Sons dying at her feet Heroic Stone Figure in the BRĀĻU KAPI Cemetery, Riga By the Latvian Sculptor and Architect Kārlis Zāle (1888-1942).

Plate XIX     TWO BALT HEROES OF LITHUANIA GEDIMINAS, KING (1316-41), AND VYTAUTAS, GRAND DUKE (1386-1430) Bronze Medals by the Lithuanian Sculptor Petras Rimša (1923 and 1930).