Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 6. (Budapest, 1963)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Horváth, Tibor: Report on the Activities of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Art in the Years 1959—1961

Indology sessions, visiting the Museum of Oriental Cultures, the Pushkin Museum and the Kremlin; she studied the exhibits of the Roerich Memorial Room, opened on the occasion of the Congress, and she made an excursion to the Monastery of Zagorsk. From August 17 to 19 she saw the oriental material of the Hermitage and the Ethnographical and Anthropological Institute in Leningrad, visiting the more important art monuments of the city as well. Returning to Moscow, she went to see the Tretyakov Gallery and the Historical Museum on August 20—21. 1961. Tibor Horváth spent five weeks (from April 16 to May 19) in the Mongolian People's Republic as a delegate of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. During the journey he was able to spend three days in Moscow, studying the Oriental art treasures of the Oruzheinaya Palata (the Treasury) in the Kremlin, the post-impressionist paintings in the Pushkin Museum, and also the finds of the Altai area, Minussinsk and Lake Baikal in the Historical Museum. His programme included the permanent and temporary (modern Japanese decorative art and woodcuts) exhibitions in the Museum of Oriental Cultures. He arrived at Ulan-Bator on April 14. Beginning with April 14 he made a three days' excursion to the famous Hun site of Noin-Ula. From April 21 to 26 he covered a more extensive area, visiting Kharuk Gol, Cecerleg, Harhorin (Karakorum and Erdeni-dzu), Khujirt. Khöshö Tsaidam (the monuments of Kül tegin and Bilge khagan), and finally Chin tolgoin balgas. The first joint Hungarian-Mongolian archaeological expedition, led by Tibor Horváth and N. Ser-Odzhav, made an excavation from April 29 to May 14. A Hun cemetery consisting of five large kourgans and four small graves was chosen as the site ; it is situated near the pioneer-camp (pionir-lager) along the Selbe river, 18 km-s north of Ulan-Bator. The available staff and the short time allotted for work prevented the researchers from uncovering more than two small graves and the filled in area of one large kourgan. The most interesting finds were two perfect iron arrow-heads (one for hunting and the other for causing fires), iron bridles, pottery-vessels and a tiny fragment of a black lacquered object of Chinese