30 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 
IV. ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS UPON BONE AND TORTOISE SHELL. 
A remarkable find of antiquities occurred in 1899 near Wei Hui Fu (Honan Proy- 
ince) upon the site of the ancient city Chao Kuo Ch‘ng ($f ay +k). There were 
reported to have been exhumed three thousand fragments. The vendors went first to 
Peking, but finding that city disturbed by the approaching Boxer Uprising, they 
brought their curios to the city of Weihsien (Shantung) and left a portion of the find in 
Fia. 4. Fia. 5. Fia. 6. Fig. 7. Fig. 8. Fia. 9. 
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Figs. 4-9. Inscribed bone arrow-heads found near Wei Hui F 
of the Royal Asiatic Society at Shanghai, and Fi 
duced in size.) The style of writing 
u (Honan Province). Figs. 4-6 are in the Museum 
igs. 7-9 are in the Bergen collection (Shantung, China). (Slightly re- 
1s very archaic, most of the symbols being as yet undeci phered. 
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the hands of a local merchant. This Chinese gentleman, being a friend of the writer, 
made known the presence of these unique curiosities, and loaned them to him for 
inspection. The balance of the find had been t: 
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sold to a mandarin (Tao-tai) Liu T4e-Yiin (B) 4 ‘®). This Chinese scholar pub- 
lished a book in his own language, illustrated with eight hundre 
aken to Shanghai (or elsewhere) and 
d phototypes taken 
