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Earthenware water cooler (29. 9. 1902. 2), from Sin, Fonndone, 

 Senegambia ; presented by Mr. W. E. Johnson, Bathurst. 



Knife and sheath of leather (29. 9. 1902. 3), from Sassandra, Ivory 

 Coast : presented by Mr. J. W. Lawless, Sassandra. 



Appliances used in the preparation of food stuffs in "West Africa, 

 collected by Mr. A. Ridyard for the late Mr. Richard Bennett, and 

 presented by Mrs. Richard Bennett (IT. 7. 1902), as follows: — Basket 

 sieve, Gaboon ; canoe-shaped wooden bowl, Batanga, Cameroon* ; 

 wooden platter, with handle, Gaboon ; wooden bowl or mortar, with 

 handle, Gaboon : three piccin stones, "West Africa : basket sieve, tray, 

 and wooden mortar and wooden mortar and pounder, Sierra Leone ; 

 wooden mortar and pounder, Gaboon ; wooden mortar and pounder, 

 Boma, Congo River; mortar and pounders, from Sierra Leone, 

 Gaboon, Congo Francais, and Boma, River Congo, 1898. 



South Africa : — 



Head-dress of ostrich feathers (3. 2. 1902. 205), worn by the 

 Matabele Chief, " Gambo,'' who fell in the battle of Thabasmanha, 

 •Tune, 1896 ; purchased. 



Stone scraper (3. 6. 1902. 1), dug up, along with an axe and arrow- 

 head, in Swaziland: presented by Mr. W. Spencer Walton, Durban. 



Melanesia:— 



Series of photographs (3. 2. 1902. 1-205) of natives of the Pacific 

 Islands, taken by Dr. O. Finsch ; purchased. 



Pestle and mortars of ebony (17. 7. 1902), from New Guinea, from 

 the collection of the late Mr. Richard Bennett: presented by Mrs. 

 Bennett. 



An important collection of Ethnography (3. 6. 1902. l-(iT), from 

 the Xicobar Islands, presented by Sir Richard Temple through C. II. 

 Read, Esq., Keeper of British and Mediaeval Antiquities, British 

 Museum, contains examples of the following specimens: — Mo. lei 

 panoe, with outrigger and sails : double canoe : canoe, with leaf and 

 cloth sails: canoe, without outrigger: palm-leaf petticoats; palm- 

 leaf fan : coco-nut rasps ; wooden figures of : animals : wooden press; 



