Prom Our Own Correspondent.
Titag, Kan., Jan. 20 Phe entire distrfet has been very much worked up over the discovery of pottery that the ma tives cbissify 28 belonging to the period of the Shang dynasty. collector for Dr. Anderson, Advisor to the Chinese Government, has been here acting as advance agent for the Doctor and has unearthed quite a bit of pottery a well me and cote imple 'The Hpot where inca of phe ptufl has been found is about 24 miles southwest of the city among loess cliffs forming the rim of the Tuo river valley. Along the edges of these cliffs are pockets marked by Diack ash and a few minutes'
enough to unearth an interesting work with even a screw driver assortment of stone knives, bone ud needles, and frag any of, the pockets and whereas some of the findings seem to indicate burial spots where the dead were laid with a full assortment of the wherewith-all ta. start life in the new world, other spots: seem to be the sites of ancient dwellings.
DISTINCTIVE DECORATIVE ART, ing igh ber ight a number el Pa tat line been. unearthed. in' the vuriows patterns in and rusty black. with the favorite motifs of Chinese art these fare at once distinctive in their strangeness. Mystics symbols of sun and wind and other esoteric patterns quite unintelligible to the amateur remind one: of the aucient art of Babylon and the near cast and prompts the cager ques tion "Was there any ancient and close, communication. between this part of China and those dead and gone civilizations ey some trade youre through the Tsaidam—some trade route long since forgotten?
Surely China with its immense store from the past secreted that incomparable preservative Jocas is the choice hunting ground for the archaeologist 1
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