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BERLIN

[[underline]]MUSEUM FUR[[/underline]] [[underline]]VOLKERKUNDE[[/underline]] 

At the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin,  Dr. Erich Haenisch accompanied me through the Oriental collections which included some bronzes important chiefly for the reason that they could be approximately dated by the coins found with them in the excavation. Among the Han dynasty stone reliefs, I noted one of peculiarly fine execution. 

I was unfortunate in arriving at a time when it seemed inconvenient for the officials to show me the results of the excavations undertaken by the Museum in the Province of Shantung, or the many examples of Sung pottery which were not on exhibition in the public rooms. 

[[underline]]THE CHOTSCHO[[/underline]][[underline]]FINDS[[/underline]]  

By far the most important mass of Oriental material in the Museum--I might add in Berlin--was the collection brought back from Chotscho in Turkestan by Professor von le Coq who, at the time of my visit to Germany was again in the field making further exploration and excavation. Having familiarized myself with the splendid reproductions of this collection before leaving America, I was able to give my time to a careful examination of the particular points which are not yet settled concerning it. In brief, it was impossible not to conclude that the frescoes, and consequently much of the other material, date from the early part of the Sung period and are not from the beginning of T'ang as is generally considered. This decision had been suggested by the study of the colored reproductions and confirmed by examination of the originals. I do not consider 

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There are umlauts on two words in line 2 that have been penciled in. I do not have the ability to include this on my device. -kes08/12/14