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double-edged knife in sheath: rattan hat; wooden spoon; basket or 
bird-cage; carved wooden ladles; carved wooden figure; wooden 
hat; wooden rice and salt dish; wooden food bowl; carved wood 
box and cover in form of a cow (?); spears with iron heads. 
N. America, 
Purchased : 
Headdress of eagle feathers, worn by Chief Hiawatha; fur 
pouch; silver pendant; silver fibula: circular silver brooch; painted 
wooden mask; hand rattle, made of a horn; hand rattle, made of a 
long-necked chelonian ; pair of dance rattles made of goats’ hoofs; 
necklace of teeth and beads; bow and arrow: all from the Six 
Nation Indians, 
S. America. 
Purchased : 
Collection of Archeological Remains from burials jn Central 
Honduras, collected by Dr. Thomas Gann during many years’ 
residence there. In many ways the collection is remarkable; some 
of the flint-worked implements in form and size may be classed as 
unique, and the series of pottery figurines and pottery are 
remarkable. The collection comprises several hundreds of objects, 
including a celt and a stone imitation of the shell of a bivalve, on 
which Maya hieroglyphs are engraved. In the collection are small 
figures of reptiles, men, warriors, heads of animals, birds and 
men, and the hands and feet off figurines, all in earthenware; stone 
and flint implements ; spearheads, knives, celts, knack stones, 
pounders, metatas, mortars, knives, scrapers, and obsidian cores ; 
necklaces of beads in stone and shell; ear ornaments in stone; 
rubbers and beaters and other stone and flint objects; remains of 
plaster carvings and mouldings from temples, with the original 
colours zm situ, and facsimile drawings of figures of deities? on 
the walls of the temples. 
India. 
Presented : 
A small collection of objects from the natives of the Naga Hills, 
consisting of hatchets—iron heads and wooden shafts; spears; 
