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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A wooden idol, pottery bowl, and various other objects 

 obtained from tke Aros near Arockuku, S. Nigeria. Presented 

 by D. A. Macalister, Esq. 



A wristlet of goJ.d and glass beads taken from one of tke 

 Askanti temples, Gold Coast. Presented anonymously. 



Tke robe and cap of tke King of Dakomey, given to Vice- 

 Admiral Eardley Wilmot. 



Two steatite carvings of a man and a woman from Mendiland, 

 Sierra Leone. Presented by Major Hugh Rochford. 



A steatite figure obtained in about 1884 in tke Yoni country, 

 Sierra Leone. Presented by Major H. E. Weaver. 



A series of stone implements of palaeolitkic type, found at or 

 near tke village of Katende, 40 miles from Luebo, in tke gravels 

 of tke Lulua River, Belgian Congo. Presented by the Rev. G. 

 Tollefsen. 



An iron arrowkead, found in a cave at Kakontwe Quarry, 

 Katanga, Belgian Congo. Presented by Alexander Hay, Esq. 



A Buskman ockre painting on stone, representing antelopes, 

 from Hkodesia. Presented by H. H. Hamling, Esq. 



Two large digging-stick stones and several otker stone imple- 

 ments from tke Transvaal. Presented by Major T . G. Trevor. 



Tke rod of office of a priestess of tke " ^N'abingi " Secret 

 Society, and a necklet of ckarms worn by tke Mukunde Ndocki- 

 biri, from Kigezi, Britisk E-uanda. Presented by Capt. J. E. 

 Philipps, M.C. 



A nine-stringed guitar from tke Uganda Protectorate. Pre- 

 sented, by C. 0. SJcilbeck, Esq. 



A series of beads found upon tke seaskore, and a " slate " 

 made from a earners scapula, from Zanzibar. 



Oceania. — A wooden cannibal fork from Fiji. Presented by 

 H.M. the King. 



A large series of etknograpkical objects, ckiefly from Fiji, 

 Tonga and tke New Hebrides, collected by tke donor, and includ- 

 ing a large wkale's tootk given by King George Tubou of Tonga 

 to Tkakombau, and an keir loom mat of Fatafeki, '* Divine King " 

 of Tonga. Presented by Sir Everard im Thurn, K.C.M.G., 

 K.B.E., C.B. 



A large series of stone implements, sculptures and otker 

 objects from Easter and Pitcairn Islands, collected by tke donor 

 and Mrs. Scoresby Routledge on tkeir expedition to tke Pacific, 

 1913-16. Presented by Scoresby Routledge, Esq., F.S.A. 



A stone sculptured kead, mounted on a skell ring, repre- 

 senting tke " tindalo " of Kulanikama, and a stalagmite armlet 

 and breast ring worn by kis priest, from tke Solomon Islands. 

 Presented by the Rev. Canon A. Penny. 



A carved wooden block for printing ** tapa " from Fiji, 

 Presented by Dr. A. P. Maudslay. 



A kava bowl and disk from Fiji, and a paddle from tke 

 Caroline Islands. Presented by C. 0. Skilbeck, Esq. 



A wooden slop-bowl studded witk kuman teetk, formerly tke 

 property of Kamekameka I, King of Hawaii. 



