MUSEUMS. 



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The following specimens from Landana, Portuguese Congo, were 

 collected and presented by Mr. 0. Sonnenberg, per Mr. A. 

 Kidyard : — 



Fetish Doctor's Outfit, ' Inganga ' (27. 11. 42-40), consisting of (a) 

 Fetish figure with tall headdress and protruding stomach, inlaid with 

 <?lass ; (b) apron, of blue cloth, round the waistband a strip of mam- 

 mal skin and two tails of the tree porcupine (cerco/abes prehensilis), 

 and around the bottom a fringe of feathers ; (c) mirror, let in wood 

 decorated with tufts of the tails of the tree porcupine and feathers, 

 used when a person is affected with fever : (</) fever fetish, a piece of 

 wood covered with copper, to which is attached a bell, and to it 

 various bags containing miscellaneous objects ; (e) skin bag contain- 

 ing miscellaneous objects, used for healing the sick; all from Fute, 

 (biloango. Wooden Fetish Figure (27. 11. 99. 47), Fute, Chiloango. 



Photographs of AVest African subjects (27. 11. 99. 48), presented 

 by Mr. Walter Beattie, per Mr. A. Kidyard. 



Eight photographs taken at Buea, Cameroons (27. 11. 99. 49) ; 

 presented by Mr. F. R. C. Lutterodt, per Mr. A. Ridyard. 



The following specimens (24. 4. 99. 1-18) were collected and pre- 

 sented by Mr. J. H. Holland, Curator, Botanical Gardens, Old 

 Calabar : — 



Three Carved Wooden Human Heads — one bi-faced — painted 

 respectively yellow and black, black and white, and yellow and 

 black, all carved out of the wood of the cotton tree {Eriodendroit 

 aufractuosum), Old Calabar: Rude Wood Carving in form of four 

 human heads, attached to a cane flanged foot, Old Calabar; three 

 Wooden Spoons, Ikpa, Old Calabar ; two Musical Instruments, the 

 body made from wood of the cotton tree, and the keys from the split 

 petioles of the ' Bamboo Palm,' bound on with African bass, both 

 species of Raphia, Old Calabar ; Fly Whisk, made of the midribs of 

 the leaflets of the ' Oil Palm ' (Elcei.s guineensis), Ikpa, Old Calabar; 

 two Fish-traps, Degema," New Calabar River; Basket, made with 

 native rope known as 'tie tie' {calamus sj>.)\ Basket, made with 

 grass, and bound together with African bass (Rapheria Hookeri), 

 Old Calabar; Basket, made by an Iboe man in Old Calabar, with 

 the split petioles of the ' oil palm ' (Elce/s guineensis) : Hammock, 



