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In 1921, the tomb and the associated artifacts arrived at the museum and became a focal point of the collection. Originally there was little provenance (or history) relating the artifacts to their long history and it was only suspected that this tomb belonged to
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of constant warfare. By the time the Ming dynasty fell in 1644, Zu Dashou and a number of his sons had switched loyalties and served the new
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