1.3.02026-08-05brevRådata517437arkivdokumentStatens museer för världskultur - Östasiatiska museetSMVK-OMDokumenthttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/517437E1A-4_0683-0684, E1A-4_0683, E1A-4_068406 33. PROFESSOR J,. &G. ANDERSSON LÅNGÄNGEN STOCKSUND July 3, 1930 Dr. Wong Wen Hao, The Director of the Rational Geological Survey of China, Peiping. Dear Doctor Wong, Vr Lagerberg, The Head of our Legation in Peking, has kindly sent me a copy of your letter to him dated May 14 with reference to return consixmgnments of archaeological collections. I very fully realize the serious difficulty which you must have experienced because of the slow progress in the fulfilment of my obligations. On the other hand I hope that you will understand the reasons for this delay. Not being a professionaly trained archeeologist, I had during my first years in Sweden first to collect a research library and then to begin studying. Furthermore the restoration of the funeral urns has proved a much more difficult and tedious undertaking than we originaly expected. Upon the kind suggestion of Mr. Lagerberg I will write you in some detail on this point, including photographs to illustrate the different stages of the restoration work. I sincerely hope that our third consignment has safely reached you and that the contents were unbroken. We are now preparing the fourth consignment, which will be sent from here in a very short time and will condist of tne following materials: 1: Funeral urns of the fourth period (Hsin Tien). 2: Painted pot sherds from Yang Shao Tsun. 3: ÅA large number of stone implé&ements from various localities.o68. This letter is intended to inform you about the progress of our work by the midst of this year. The first of October I will send you a new report and so also by the end of the year. Already at this stage of my work I want to inform you that I will do everything in my power to return all collections due to Peking in a years time from now. It is my hope to be able to go to Peking in the autumn of next year and to offer to you my services in exhibiting in the museum of the Geological Survey of China my archae- ological collections in an eoually beatiful display as the one exhi- bited here in Stockholm. Some few days ago His Excellency Chu, together with the Chinese minister to Berlin andanother high official of the Nanking Government spent esse: three hours in studying the archaeological material from China. They took much interest in learning our methods of restoring the specimens, and I also explained to them the planned progress of our return consignments. With kindest regarås, yours very sincerelyTillverkad1930image/jpeghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/tn/10139161/E1A-4_0683.jpghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/zoom/10139160/E1A-4_0683.jpghttp://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#cc0Östasiatiska museetUtgången upphovsrättimage/jpeghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/tn/10139165/E1A-4_0684.jpghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/zoom/10139164/E1A-4_0684.jpghttp://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#cc0Östasiatiska museetUtgången upphovsrätthttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkiv/204083http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/html/517437http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/xml/517437http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/rdf/517437