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Hearst Museum object titled Collar, accession number 9-21268, described as Collar, child’s; Five petals in light green, midnight blue, cinnabar, hunter green, and mouse grey. All edges piped in black outside narrow silk tape, with blue edges and running diamond pattern, scalloped on one side. Embroidery is in satine stitch. petal 1: Moth and bird on flowering branch. Petal 2: double coin and bat with peach branch; Petal 3: bat over orchids; Petal 4: reed pipes (mouth organ?) over lotus; Petal 5: chrysanthemum. (Fide: Ilse Fang, 8/28/2001: Motifs may be seasonal. Medium to good embroidery quality.) Paper interfacing, peach-colored silk lining. ca. 1900. Girl’s name written on back of petal 4” T’ung Hsueh-yuan. Petals: 10 cm long, 11.5 cam; neck opening: ca. 8 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Paper, accession number 9-21427a-k, described as Paper. Seven forms of yellow stationery for memorials to the throne. Donor’s note: One with Chinese writing on the front page, and Manchu writing on back, containing only eight panels; the others, ten. Two have yellow silk brocade covers. Inside paper is red. 21.5 x 29 cm. Seven stationery panels have deteriorated into eleven separate pieces: a) Chinese writing on the front page, Manchu writing on back, eight panels; b-e) Yellow paper covers, no writing; f) Yellow silk brocade covers, red pages, no writing; g) Yellow paper covers, Chinese characters on one page; h) Single yellow silk brocade cover; i) Folded red pages; j) Partial yellow silk brocade page, cut in half through set of characters; k) Single yellow paper page.

Hearst Museum object titled Paper money, accession number 9-21357, described as I-Ho money Bill. Issued by the I-Ho mint. Denomination ”Three string of cash." Framed inscription, upper left: the Confucian exposition of the values of the rule, the official, father, son, elder and younger brother and spouses. Lower red seal: stamp of the mint. Red seal top center only partly legible: "? eighty cash not to be discounted ? by authorities in all provinces”.

Hearst Museum object titled Wallet, accession number 9-21256, described as Wallet to be carried in riding boot. Covered inside and outside with black broadcloth, bordered with a white, light blue and navy braid. It covers both sides and one bottom together, the other edges separately for the inside and the outside. Top and bottom edges rounded. Inside braids: a narrow green, white pearled tape. Plain outside; inside appliqued with two pink flowering plants. Anthers in satin and know stitch. Both outside and inside made of one piece each. Compartment lined with vermillion red silk, the upper edge with pink, sized cotton cloth. Left panel has a wide inside pocket; the right panel, two narrow ones. Use of inside pockets unknown. A red slip of paper with four cyclical binoms was found in the wallet, stuck in the wide inside pocket. Overall height: 16 cm; width, closed: 9.7 cm.