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A sheet of cream paper printed with Chinese characters and images in black ink. These are pages from a sheet to be made up into a Chinese elementary school text book for pupils studying the Chinese language, in simplified Chinese script, so from modern China. The same pages appear twice on one sheet, so it would have come from the printers. The donor may have bought something wrapped in it.
These objects are only a part of our collections, of which there are more than 350,000 objects. This information comes from our collections database. Some of this is incomplete and there may be errors. This part of the website is also still under construction, so there may be some fields repeated or incorrectly formatted information.
The database sometimes uses language taken from historical documents to help research, which may now appear outdated and even offensive. The database also includes information on objects that are considered secret or sacred by some communities.
If you have any further information about objects in our collections or can suggest corrections to our information, please contact us: enquiry@horniman.ac.uk
