A RUNIC MEMORIAL 



enable him to travel to China, in order to procure collections 

 for the Rohsska Kunstslojdniuseum in Gothenburg. But pre- 

 vious to this he set out on a journey of study throughout 

 Europe, in order to make himself conversant with the collec- 

 tions of Chinese art in the important museums. In the autumn 

 he travelled to Siberia, visited the battle-grounds of Mukden, 

 and in September settled down in Peking, wherefrom he made 

 excursions into Mongolia and China. 



On the same journey he received from the Ethnographical 

 Section of the Riksmuseum in Stockholm a considerable sum of 

 money, with the proposal that he should also collect for this 

 museum anything of interest. In the yearly report of the 

 Ethnographical Museum for 1916 Wulff's collection is esti- 

 mated to number 956 articles. This collection gives a com- 

 plete picture of life in China, not merely before the revolution, 

 but also from the oldest time. 



Wulff's sojourn in China was rich in adventures ; he himself 

 most frequently mentioned a relief expedition in which he took 

 part in June, 1913, to save a friend, the Scottish telegraphist 

 Mr. Grant, who had been kidnapped and carried away by 

 Mongolian robbers. The expedition reached the camp of the 

 robbers, but simultaneously as they were informed that their 

 friend had been murdered long ago, they themselves were 

 captured and were to be executed. After two days of waiting 

 the chief of the tribe was accidentally informed that a son of 

 Director Henningsen from Store Nordiske was amongst the 

 condemned. As soon as the chief heard this, the sentence of 

 death was annulled, as he had once received great hospitality at 

 one of the stations of Det Store Nordiske Telegrafselskab. The 

 white men were then led away under guard, whilst as a com- 

 pensation the Chinese followers were beheaded. 



In 1914 Wulff went from China to Japan, where he did not 

 content himself merely with gaining a thorough knowledge of 

 the life and customs of the modern Japanese, but also went to 

 the island Yesso to study the Aino people, now becoming 

 extinct. He succeeded here in collecting rich material, in the 

 form of museum objects, pictures, and written notes ; unfor- 

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