28. Stone Implements from the Téngyiieh District, 
Yiinnan Province, Western China. 
(With a short account of the beliefs of the Yiinnanese 
regarding these objects.) 
By J. Cocern Brown, B.Sc., F.GS., F.C.8. 
The only previous description of stone implements from 
a district which I have been able to find is given by 
Pid 
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were purchased during this enforced residence. They were 
fashioned out of the following rocks, viz., quartz, Lydian stone, 
chert or hornstone, jade, agalmatolite, basalt, greenstone, sand- 
stone, ie clayslate, and a brown, calcareous, shale-like 
nie: 
“Noticing a stone implement exposed for sale on a stall in 
the Momien bazar, I purchased it for the equivalent of 
a few pence. No sooner was my liking for such objects 
known than I was besieged by needy persons who willingly 
parted with them for sums varying in value from four to 
cured by different members of the Expedition; but all were 
purchased, none being discovered by any of us. Most were 
obtained at Momien, and a few in the Sanda valley.’ 
Téngyiieh Ting or Momien, as it is known to the Burmese, 
is an important frontier town in the western prefecture of the 
province of Yiinnan. It is situated in Lat. 25° 2’, and Long. 
98° 33’, 112 miles north-east of Bhamo in Upper Burma, and at 
a i ee ee ee 
n account of the travels of this expedition is to be found in the 
ee eh ‘ A Report on the E iti 
v2 ashe 
lay to Mome; y John Anderson, M.D., Caleutte, 
1868 and 1875, by Jo n Anderson, M.D., London, 1876 
**The Stone Implements of Yunnan, wi bronze, axe-like 
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weapon f with oe vet 5 
on from th: om ix C. pp. 410-41 erson’s 
187] eee, Sanda Valley ppendix C. pp. 410-415 o: 
