MUSEUMS. 55 
Native straw hat; earthenware bowl and lid; Mr. C. D. H. 
During. 
Purchased : 
Box, in form of a coiled mud-fish, from Benin; dress of dyed and 
netted grass, from Old Calabar. 
~ Cameroons :— 
Purchased : 
Painted wooden head ornaments; wooden figures; wooden painted 
masks; fetish figures; painted and burnt sticks; wooden tablet; 
painted and burnt heads; fetishes; wooden figures, mostly in the 
attitude of holding a vessel to the mouth, &c.; wooden pendant ; 
handle of a sceptre; axe; animal fetishes; ivory horns; clay pipe- 
heads; stem of a pipe made from old gun fittings; earthenware 
mace(?), heads and stand; earthenware bowl; knives, iron blades; 
ivory horn; bags made of dyed grass; grass girdle dress; grass 
mats; knife; painted charms or fetish, and miniature girdle dress: 
= 
enemas; wooden combs; grass basket and lid; sceptres or official 
staffs; spears, various; wooden telegraph drum. 
Congo :— 
Presented : 
Bead girdle dress; bead necklace; cloth apron, with beadwork 
decoration ; wooden bowl with lid—all from Matadi; Mr. C. D. H. 
- During. 
‘Melanesia— 
New Guinea : — 
Presented : 
_ Shell trumpet known as Balalani, shell trumpets called Bogigt, 
from South Cape; shell trumpets called A72bz, from Moresby Island ; 
collected by the late Rev. W. G. Lawes; Mrs. Harley. 
Solomon Islands : — 
___ Presented : 
_ Shell trumpet, from the Florida group; Mrs. Harley. 
