58 ittrsEuMS. 



examples of woven bags, pouches, fillets, aprons, mummy 

 wrappers of various materials and designs, slings, painted 

 grave tablets, sepulchral crosses, cane boxes, spindles and staves 

 from a mummy pack, spindles and spindle-whorls, bowls made from 

 gourds, earthenware water jars, ear studs from the heads of false- 

 headed mummies, fruit, shells, corn, wooden cone, &c., &c., all from 

 tombs at Ancon, Peru. With this collection was also received, as 

 part of the exchange, a group of prehistoric pottery vessels and flint 

 implements (22. 4. 1901. 263-301) from graves in Arkansas and 

 Missouri, U.S.A. 



Casts of Ancient Egyptian flint bracelets (28. 1. 1901. 45-46) from 

 the originals in the Oxford Museum were received in exchange for 

 duplicate implements from the Eastern Desert. Egypt. 



A series of trade amulets and charms (28. 3. 1901. '-30-41), in glas^-, 

 &c., made in Bohemia for export to Africa, India, and the South Sea 

 Islands, was received from Mr. Edward Lovett in exchange for 

 duplicate Egyptian flint implements from the Eastern Desert, New 

 Guinea shell bracelet (25. 1. 98. 1()1) and shell nose sticks (25. 1. 98. 

 KIT and 109). 



Ethnographical specimens from Borneo (26. 8. 1901. 1-122) con- 

 sisting of hats, shields, war jackets, baskets for various purposes, 

 waistbands, rice bowls, rice stirrers, chop-sticks, case for feathers, 

 swords, flute, gourds, tobacco boxes, bamboo boxes, flint and steel, 

 armlets, earrings, spoons, peg-top, pipes, necklaces, cigarette papers, 

 palm leaf cape, child's head squeezer, cap, fish-trap, leg bauds, 

 Jew's harp musical instrument, rat gouge, and cane suspender for 

 skulls, was received from the British Museum in exchange for 

 duplicate Egyptian flint implements from the Eastern Desert. 



A stone tapa-beater (2-3. 1. 98. 28) from Taupota, New Guinea, 

 was sent (October 10th) to Dr. A. B. Meyen Dresden, for a future 

 exchange. 



(d) Acquisitions. 

 (1.) General. 

 Fac-simile of the Mayer or Eejervary Codex, reproduced for, and 

 presented by M. Le Due de Loubat (14. 10. 1901. 83). 



