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ribs, string made from the fibre, and the net made from the string, 

 from Iquitos : six arrows ; paddle (imperfect) : fruit, the juice of 

 which is used for staining the body, from Iquitos. 



North : — 



Totem Pole, carved on a giant cedar (Thuja gigantea). The pole 

 is now 39 feet 6 inches high, and with the original buried base may 

 have been some 8 to 10 feet longer. The back is hollowed out. The 

 post is surmounted by a group of three sitting figures, wearing 

 "chiefs" hats' (skil), which indicates the number of potlatches, or 

 feasts, given by the owner. The figures below represent the Bear 

 (Hoorts) eating a Frog : below this again is a head with a chief's hat, 

 and still lower is illustrated the story of the Bear (Hoorts) and the 

 Hunter (Towats) ; on one side is a small head, and below this a figure 

 of the AVolf, and on either side of the opening for the doorway into 

 the house are totemistic designs. From the Haida Indians, Queen 

 Charlotte Islands (20. 5. 1901. 31); purchased. 



A collection (9. 12. 1901. 1-45) of X.YV. American specimens, 

 from the Kawkiutl and Haida Indians, were acquired by purchase, as 

 follows: — household chest: hat of twined spruce roots: gambling 

 sticks : stone mortar: large plain copper: spoon, made from the horn 

 of the mountain sheep ; two wooden soap spoons : wooden dish, inlaid 

 with opercula : halibut hook: cod hook: carved sea otter club ; seal 

 or sea otter spear ; two small coppers : pendants : adze : stone adze- 

 head ; two paint, brushes: carved stone sledge hammer — from the 

 Haida Indians; raven mask; hamatsas head ring; singing master's 

 baton: wolf mask : painted ceremonial spear ; wooden whistle : brass 

 armlets ; necklace of Dentalium indianorum ; throwing stone : 

 wooden cradle; spindle and whorl; doctor's rattle; bone chopper; 

 bone knife ; knife made from a deer bone ; stone hammer ; bark 

 baler: fish-rake: salmon spear-head; paddle of yellow cedar; 

 cloak of cedar bark: rain cape of cedar bark — from the Kawkiutl 

 Indians : spindle and whorl of maple wood ; cup, made of birch 

 bark: two matmakers' needles; and grooved wooden implement, used 

 in matmaking. 



Japan:— 



One hundred masks of the characters in the " No " drama, 

 modelled in plaster, by Twai Kwaisetu, a.d. 1788 (20. 5. 1901. .°>2) : a 



