66 accounts, etc., of the british museum. 



Christy Collection. 



During the year the Trustees have acquired by donation the 

 following objects, which have been transferred to the Trustees of 

 the British Museum : — 



(1.) Etlinograpliy of Asia. 



A scroll picture of Buddhist divinities from China, and an 

 amuletic necklace of carnelian arrowheads, probably Syrian. 

 Presented hy Sir Hercules Read, P.S.A. 



A chain mail shirt obtained at the Tartar bazaar in Tiflis. 

 Presented hy Major J. J. Darlow. 



A pottery reliquary cover, found on the surface near Amplur 

 Pak Bong, Lampun District, Upper Siam. Presented by A. L. 

 Queripel, Esq. 



A double skull hand-drum, used in Lamaistic ritual, Tibet. 

 Presented hy Mrs. Herbert Godsal. 



Three photographic negatives of a Dyak man wearing an 

 ornament called " ampallang," Borneo. Presented hy Dr. C. L. 

 Sansom, C.M.G. 



(2.) Ethnography of Africa. 



A series of obsidian flaked implements from British East Africa. 

 Presented hy C. W. Hohley, Esq., C.M.G. 



Two shields and a number of spears from the Wa-Kinyikiusa, 

 Lake Nyassa. Presented hy T. A . V. Pest, Esq. 



Two ceremonial masks worn by boys after initiation, from the 

 Zombo country, lower Congo. Presented hy the Baptist Missionary 

 Society. 



A number of conventional iron arrow-heads used as currency by 

 the bush people of the Abajali District, Southern Nigeria. 

 Presented hy the Director of the Bank of British West Africa. 



A fetish of shells and hair bound with string, probably from 

 West Africa. Presented by Airs. Flecknoe. 



A wooden carved figure representing a man emerging from a 

 serpent's mouth, from West Africa. Presented hy Capt. P. L. 0. 

 Guy. 



A seated female figure carved in black wood, from Mendiland, 

 Sierra Leone. Presented hy Capt. Keith Henderson. 



A white metal cup from Zanzibar. Presented hy 2\ B. Clarke- 

 Thornhill, Esq. 



A carved wooden cup from the Kasai River, Congo. Presented 

 hy Louis G. C. Clarke, Esq., F.S.A. 



(3.) Ethnography of Oceania. 



An ethnographical series from British New Guinea. Presented 

 hy Capt. F. R. Barton, C.M.G. 



Two spears with shell and feather ornament, from New Britain. 

 Presented hv A. E. Ridsdale, Esq. 



