Hsu's desire to preserve aborigine artifacts started when he realized that many aborigines had abandoned their mountain homes to work in the cities as their standard of living improved after the return of Taiwan to the Republic of China.
這是徐瀛洲在台南安平一間拆毀廟宇的廢棄物中，撿拾回來補修而成的。在他的收藏品中，類似這樣意外得來的東西很不少，其中以山胞古物最多。為山胞保留文化遺產台灣光復以後，山胞生活改善，在政府的協助下紛紛移居平地，也因此將許多古物遺棄在山中，任其腐壞。