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Clément Huet, already a well known collector of ethnographic material in Central Africa, worked as a businessman in North Vietnam from 1912 to 1938. He was acquainted with various scholars in Vietnam, and with Emile Pajot, the excavator of Dong-s'on, and over the years amassed a collection of over 7000 pieces. Nearly half this collection has come to the Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire in Brussels following his death in 1951. The collection is well documented, many pieces are provenanced to sites, and it is by far the most important collection of Vietnamese antiquities (excluding sculpture) in the Western world.
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