54 MUSEUMS. 



From Sierra Leone : — Plaited Grass Hat (19. 4. 98. 5); Gourd Water 

 Bottle (9. 8. 98. 6), Rotifunk. 



From Liberia : — Plaited Grass Caps (19. 4. 98. 10-11), Saas Town ; 

 Fife (18. 10. 98. 5), Cape Lopez. 



From the Gold Coast : — Gourd Calabash (19. 4. 98. 6) ; Soup Ladle 

 (19. 4. 98. 7) ; Drum (19. 4. 98. 8) ; Pair of Wooden Shoes 

 (19. 4. 98. 9) ; Red Clay Pipe-head, in form of a tortoise (9. 8. 98. 3) ; 

 Wooden Figure of an Executioner (9. 8. 98. 7), all from Accra. 

 Wooden Figure of a Bird with a snake in its beak (9. 8. 98. 1), Quitta ; 

 Whip made of fish intestines (18. 10. 98. 1), Quitta. 



Dahomey :— Native Cloth (19. 4. 90. 12), Abomey. 



Lagos : — Waistband (19. 4. 98. 27), worn as a protection against evil- 

 disposed persons ; Black Powder, a native medicine (19. 4 98. 28) ; 

 Turare, a native medicine for curing fever, &c. (19. 4. 98. 31) ; Agummu, 

 a native medicine for curing prickly heat, &c. (19.4. 98. 32-33j ; Ground 

 Potash used with medicine (19. 4. 98. 34) ; Ipara, an ointment used for 

 dropsy (19. 4. 98. 35) : Afato, a medicine (19. 4. 98. 37) ; Ar4dan, to 

 reduce inflammation (19. 4. 98. 40) ; Carved wooden head of a Fetish 

 figure, painted (9. 8. 98. 2) ; Whip of Elephant Hide (9. 8. 98. 8), 

 Ibadan. 



From Benin : — Fetish (19. 4. 98. 15), in form of two human heads 

 with protuding horns, covered with human skin and painted. 



From the Niger Coast Protectorate :— Wooden Fan (19. 4. 98. 13), 

 Old Calabar. 



Katsena, Houssa Country: — Alligator Pepper (19. 4. 98.29); Beni 

 Seed, used for making oil (19. 4. 98. 30) ; Jaro Seed, used in the pre- 

 paration of Foo Foo (19. 4. 98. 36) ; Bitter Kola, for curing coughs 

 (19. 4. 98. 38) ; Bagaruah, used for healing cuts, &c. (19. 4. 98. 39); 

 Jeddo, used for seasoning soups (19. 4. 98. 41) ; Egusi, used in preparing 

 palm oil chop (19. 4. 98. 42) ; Sour Seed, used as a cough mixture 

 (19. 4. 98. 44); Potash, used for medicine and soup (19. 4. 98. 45); 

 Locust, used in making soup (19. 4. 98. 46) ; Gangama, a sure cure for 

 headache (19. 4. 98. 47) ; Blue Dye (19. 4. 98. 43) ; Knife (9. 8, 98. 21). 



From the Cameroons :— Bululand. Cane Tooth Brush (19. 4. 98. 17) ; 

 Knife (9. 8. 98. 24) ; Wooden Bracelet, worn by a member of the ' So' 

 secret society in Bululand, taken from the Fetish Doctor when dancing 

 a Fetish Dance (9. 8. 98. 2b); Piece of bark used as a medicine 



