56 MUSEUMS. 
Polynesia : — 
Purchased : 
Bone meri, the end and side carved, from New Zealand. 
MONGOLIAN RACE. 
Japan.— 
Presented : 
Shell trumpet, with carved bone figures of man, tortoise and 
child; Mrs. Harley. 
Thibet.— 
Presented : 
Trumpet of shell; Mrs. Harley. 
Purchased : 
Three hanging pictures painted on silk, obtained from a Temple 
in Thibet. 
S. America.— 
Purchased : 
Earthenware vases; earthenware bottle; earthenware bowls; 
part of a vase; part of a wooden vase; gourd, with painted design ; 
gourd, with incised designs; plaited reed basket ; part of the lid of a 
reed basket; adze, slate head and wooden handle; siate adze-head ; 
arrow-shafts and part of a skin quiver; fragments of bows; wooden 
weaving implements; wooden paint palette (?); seeds, beans, &c., 
used as food; wooden writing (?) tablet, with leather case; leather 
case for a wooden writing tablet; hide sandal; plaited caps, with 
tufts of wool woven in; fragments of corded rope, nets, &e., and 
wooden suspenders; part of a wooden handle; shell; piece of a 
woollen poncho; piece of the outer wrapping of a mummy; plaited 
cord; bags of woven materials; human hair from a mummy; 
mummy, with fillet round the head and feathers; mummy of a 
child; two mummies—macerated for study—from cave burials in 
the Mountains in the neighbourhood of Antofagasta, Chili. 
