Strings of cowries l'skd as messages, etc. 

 /.—West African symbolic message (after Bloxam). , ,, • , 



B -"Amulet for protection/' from Kafr Ammar, Egypt (after 1 etr.e). 

 C.-Strine of C. annuhn from rubl.ish dating to xxii. dyna.ty. Medur 

 (in Mancliester Museum). 



