1. Bought from Seaouke Yue [You Xiaoxi] 游筱溪, of Shanghai 上海. For price, see Original Miscellaneous List, p. 306. $175.
2. (Undated Folder Sheet note) Original attribution: Chinese. Hsia [Xia] 夏. See further, S.I. 1332, Appendix VIII. Excavated in Shensi [Shaanxi] 陝西 province.
3. (Undated Folder Sheet note) Sp. G. is 2.992. Nephrite.
4. (Archibald Gibson Wenley, 1946) Shang 商 dynasty. For discussion of type, see folder F1916.244 (Carl Whiting Bishop), note 3.
5. (Thomas Lawton, 1978) Late Shang 商--early Western Chou [Zhou] 周.
6. (Julia K. Murray, 1982) This blade is similar in shape and proportions to a slightly larger example excavated at Shih mao [Shimao] 石峁, Shen mu [Shenmu] 神木, Shensi [Shaanxi] 陝西 (Tai Ying-hsin [Dai Yingxin] 戴應新, "Shensi Shen-mu hsien Shih-mao Lung-shan wen-hua i-chih tiao-ch'a [Shaanxi Shenmu xian Shimao Longshan wenhua yizhi diaocha] 陝西神木縣石峁龍山文化遺址調查," K'ao ku [Kaogu] 考古 1977.3, p. 155, fig. 3:1). Another comparable example, made of ordinary stone, came from Liang ch'eng chen [Liangchengzhen] 兩城鎮, Jih chao [Rizhao] 日照, Shantung [Shandong] 山東 (Liu Tun-yuan [Liu Dunyuan] 劉敦願, "Chi Liang-ch'eng chen i-chih fa-hsien ti liang chien shih-ch'I [Ji Liangcheng zhen yizhi faxian de liangjian shiqi] 記兩城鎮遺址發現的兩件石器," K'ao ku [Kaogu] 考古 1972.4, p. 57, fig. 3).
For further discussion see F1917.24.
7. (Jeffrey Smith per Keith Wilson, July 8, 2008) Ceremonial Object added as secondary classification.
8. (Susan Kitsoulis per Keith Wilson, April 2, 2010) Object name changed from "Ceremonial implement" to "Ceremonial object"; title from "Ceremonial implement; blade form with a long and short cutting edge" to "Harvesting knife (hu 笏), fragment."
9. (Jeffrey Smith per Keith Wilson, April 21, 2016) Period changed from Shang or Western Zhou dynasty with object date of ca. 1600-771 BCE to Late Neolithic period with object date of ca. 5000-ca. 1700 BCE.