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Page Four 0096 bronze vessels. I was very near to obtain for $4,500.00 an unusually big ting tripod of the Hwail style and a marvellously beautiful patinated tripod of Karlgren's scale style, but in the last moment he drew back saying that he did not like to depart with these beloved ob- jects. But my offer stands and he may come one day. Joel Erikson recently came down from Mongolia and brought w...
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Page Four 0096 bronze vessels. I was very near to obtain for $4,500.00 an unusually big ting tripod of the Hwail style and a marvellously beautiful patinated tripod of Karlgren's scale style, but in the last moment he drew back saying that he did not like to depart with these beloved ob- jects. But my offer stands and he may come one day. Joel Erikson recently came down from Mongolia and brought with him by far the most important thing we have got from that quarter: a closed grave find consisting of 61 objects mostly in a late degene- rate animal style, In the lot there were also several gold sheets with geometric designs characteristic of the animal style. Also two beautiful Chinese bronze mirrors of what I believe to be 6 aynastgef in which case we get here a most important dating of the final phase of the animal style. I have left all these things to be psacked & forwarded by Mr. Js 4. Mouland. The things will be sent as post parcels addressed to Miss Ebba Hagberg, Karlaplan 18. Much of my time in Peking I devoted to a study of the won- derful discoveries at Choukoutien on which I have written an article for Svenska Dagbladet. An English translation of this article will be forwardea by Dr, Houghton to the trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation. —A AA— —
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0093, To the China Research Committee:- REPORT ON NANKING & PEKING I arrived in Nanking on the 7th of March and stayed there until April l5th. My secretary, Miss Dorf, had to remain in Shang- hai to s...
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0093, To the China Research Committee:- REPORT ON NANKING & PEKING I arrived in Nanking on the 7th of March and stayed there until April l5th. My secretary, Miss Dorf, had to remain in Shang- hai to settle some important matters for the expedition and arrived in Nanking only the l4th of March. I am happy to report that my time in Nanking was, as a whole, very ploasant and rich in result. I arrived there under the shadow of an anonymous press campaign hostile to me but very soon I felt that I was moving in an entirely friendly atmosphere. One of the first days a very nice journalist, Mr. James Shen, representing the Central News Agency had a long interview with me in which I told my experiences from $P years in China. This man was later on very helpful in a most useful manner. Ny lectures were carried out according to the schedule earlier communicsated to Professor Karlgren. Dr. Wong's arrangement to spread out the lectures over different universities and colleges, the Ministry of Industry and the Geological Survey, carried with it the great advantage that I met a large and varied audience. After my schedulellectures were completed I was asked to give two extra lectures, one in the Central University and another in the Ginling College. Furthermore, I was invited to speak in the Nanking Women's Club and at a Rotary lunch and also in the Central Broadcasting Ad- ministration which is the official broadcasting organ of the Chinese government. This last lecture was on the subject, "China 20 Years Ago and China Today", where I had the opportunity to draw up a paral-
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Page Three 0098 decorated. Most interesting were the careful excavations of burial chambers with masks of mother-of-pearl inlaid in the wooden walls. These actual excavations glve the fullest support ...
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Page Three 0098 decorated. Most interesting were the careful excavations of burial chambers with masks of mother-of-pearl inlaid in the wooden walls. These actual excavations glve the fullest support to that interesting mask in 24 pieces which we have obtained from King. Together with Miss Dorf I was invited to two tifféns by the gentlemen in the Academia Sinica archaeology department, who gave us a really nice send-off. I had long and interesting talks with Dr. Liang who is by the way a son of Liang Chi Chao by a coneubine . I took to the Academia Sinica Mrs. Ahltins monograph on the Gh'i Chia P'ing site which created an enormous interest. Finally Dr. Liang asked in a most curteous manner: "You have no objectlon that we go and carry on iur- ther excavations in your Kansu sites" - and of course I told him that I was only too dellighted. To sum up my impressions of Nanking, I feel that my time was quite well spent. For some few weelks Sweden was spoken of quite a little, but the interest thus established should naturally be perpetuated by more permanent measures. We arrived in Peking the 16th of April ard stayed there until the 4th of May. I searched some of the more important curio shops and obtained a number of objects (see adjolning list). Very interesting was a private collection of Mr. Joseph Plautt, formerly a secretary in the German Embassy but now thrown out of a job because of his Jewish descent. He wants to sell in order to make money for the maintenance of his family. He had a lot of good mortuary fig- ures from whieh I bought some pieces and also a number of interesting
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Page Two O0M. 1el proving the very substantial reconstruction work now going on. During my time in Nanking I was able to complete my report on the "Prehistoric Sites of Northern China", Only the final...
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Page Two O0M. 1el proving the very substantial reconstruction work now going on. During my time in Nanking I was able to complete my report on the "Prehistoric Sites of Northern China", Only the final chap- ter on the physiography is not yet ready and I will work on that during the steam-boat journey up the Yangtze. After my lectures were completed I went to see the gentlemen in the Academia Sinica and was much impressed by the rapid growth of this scientific institution about which I will later on write an article for the Svenska Dagbladet, Specially interesting were my conversatlions with Dr: Fu Ssu-Nien and Dr. Liang of the department of history and philology, representing the archaeological research which is now carried on partly in Anyang and partly in sites of the black pottery in Shantung and elsewhere. Very interesting is the recent find of the black pottery near Hangehow in Chekliang from which locality we have obtained a very good collection through T. Y. King. The black pottery seems to repre- sent a coastal type of prehistorie eivilization known from sites in at least two provinces along the east coast. In Honan the black pottery is much more faintly represented. För my part I have found only one vessel of that type. On the other hand the painted Yang Shao ware seems to be entirely missing in the coastal provinces with the small exception of the Fengtien cave. During my stay in Nanking there was held a most important art oxhibition at least four times bigger than a maximum exhibition in Liljewalch. One section was devoted to arehaeology and in three rooms there were exhibited wonder- ful relics of Anyang. I guess that these things are well known through Li Chi's visit to Stockholm and I will only mention that the sitting marble dog 6 Jaicut 40 centimetres high and a big flat marble piece with two enormous Tao Tiehs had a most uncanny Maya feeling; Some four-legged bronze tings were enormous and gorgeously
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