Uov. 10. Today I purchased for the Smithsorxian Institution fifteen artifacts 



representing past customs and art in China. They are silver body ornaments, 

 H iost of them have on the silver a coating consisting of the bright "blue 

 feathers of the small tcingfishers found in this country. The styles are 

 rapidly changing. Hew-styled ornaments are displacing these. In a few 

 years there may be few if any available. Ordinarily one of these would cost 

 two or three dollars each because of the fine workmanship, if not more, but 

 these cost #5.20 Mexican, or #2.60 gold. One ornament alone is worth more 

 than this in U. S. A. I consider this a real find. 



My year of work: ends (my year of collecting at Suifu) on lovember 14th. 

 I have already filled two hundred boxes of specimens and artifacts, and have 

 materials on hand to fill at least six more. Besides, the results of more 

 than one month of collecting by Chen Gih Uin and still longer by the aborigine 

 Yang Fong Tsang are not in. They should have at least ten more boxes. Box 

 Ho. 196, contains a Lolo wooden bowl in which food is placed, and two Lolo 

 wooden spoons, decorated. 197, birdskins; 198, vase from a Chinese grave; 

 199, a larger vase from a Chinese grave. 200, bird and mammal bones. 



Hov. 12. Pilled box 201, leather garment (Lolo armor, to protect chest and shoulders). 

 202, Lolo helmet, also leather throat protector and a wrist protector. 203, 

 Lolo helmet and a wrist protector. 204, a lolo armor, chest and abdomen protector, 

 and a dish. The dish is from a Chinese grave, and is about 100 to 300 years old. 

 Box 205, silver ornaments. Box 206, silver ornaments, Chinese and Lolo earrings, 

 etc.. Box 20f, crab, insects. 



Uov. 13. Filled box Ho. 208, two mammals, one birdskin; box 209, one fish; 210, 



one fossil. Mailed all the specimens on hand, and all artifacts, making a total 

 to date of two hundred and ten boxes. Some of these are large and heavy, others 

 small. 



Dr. Tompkins arrived at Suifu Sunday, lovember eleventh. 



I have now completed one year of collecting in Suifu, Since I arrived 

 lov. 14, 1928, and began collecting immediately on arrival. Besides these 210 

 boxes or cases of specimens, there are some specimens in the hands of Yang Fong 

 Tsang the aborigine collector. He has been collecting all of September and 

 October, and should have some good specimens. Chen Gih Uen is collecting at 

 Yachow, and his collecting is so poor that I may request him to find another 

 ^ob at the end of the month — -unless I find that he has gotten better results 

 than I think he has. 



Conditions in this part of Szechuan are better than they were during the 

 first six months of my stay at Suifu. 



The securing of mammals has been probably my most difficult work— hardest 

 to secure satisfactory results. I iiave made arrangements with a Chinese friend 

 to try to secure all kinds of Mammals in a district near Kongshien, south of 

 Suifu, and I hope for better results. He is to t27y to use the regular hunters 

 who make a business of such things. 



