Friday, November 18, 2011

Moller House





Hunan and Yunnan

a restaurant called Lost Heaven, specializing in cuisines of ethnic minorities in the Yunnan region


Hunan restaurant

Shanghai Museum


Jade

death mask

lovely scarabs to be placed on the tongues of the dead


Furniture





Money




dark times for China

Masks, Shanghai Museum

This display was in the "Hall of Ethnic Minorities"




Animal motifs from the Bronze Age, Shanghai Museum

Dating as far back as 2000 BC







pillow

ornament

spearheads

Bronze Age vessels, Shanghai Museum

Dings, or three-legged vessels for food and drink