Sometimes the university sent him to places where old pottery had been discovered. It was his job to sort out these things. The university would then put the things that were interesting in a museum where they could be shown to the public. But Harry Chen had his own private museum that nobody else knew about. He hated the idea of not keeping some of the old and ,sometimes, beautiful things he found. And, if those beautiful things were only small things that nobody but ha had seen, who would ever know if they were gone? So he kept them.