BRITISH AND MEDIEVAL ANTIQUITIES. 85 



V. Christy Collection. 

 During the year, 572 objects have been entered in the 

 Registration Catalogue. The Christy Trustees have acquired 

 by donation and purchase the following objects, which they 

 have transferred to the Trustees of the British Museum : — 



I. — Prehistoric Antiquities of Europe, Asia, and 

 Africa^ : — 



Donations. — Two stone celts, found while dredging the 

 Ofin River, Ashanti ; given by F. N. Best, Esq. 



A stone celt from Ashanti ; given by F. H. Charlton, Esq. 

 A stone mortar found near Lake Rudolf ; given by the 

 Hon. K. Dundas. 



A series of obsidian flakes from Nairobi, East Africa 

 Protectorate ; given by A. F. Harrison, Esq. 

 TL — Ethnography of Asia : — 



Donations. — A steel priming-flask from Persia ; given by 

 A. W. F. Fuller, Esq. 



Whip, purse and leather cup -case from Fergana, given by 

 Michael Ivanovitch, Esq. 



A stone flake from Ceylon ; given by J. Parsons, Esq. 



III. — Ethnography of Africa: — 



A human head carved in steatite, from Sierra Leone ; given: 

 by Major G. D'Arcy Anderson. 



A juju bell from Benin ; given by Sir Mackenzie D. Chalmers, 



K.C.B. 



Basket of coiled vegetable fibre and leather ; given by 

 W. Crewdson, Esq., r.s.A. 



A string of beads from the Munshi of Takum, and a Hausa 

 pouch, obtained from a native of Ibi, Southern Nigeria ; given 

 by E. Dayrell, Esq. 



A series of fetish objects taken in Ashanti in 1908, when 

 the Abirowa fetish was destroyed ; and a small bronze figure- 

 obtained from an itinerant Ashanti goldsmith ; given by 

 Captain F. C. T. Ewald. 



A chief's staff from Togo ; given by A. W. Fuller, Esq. 



An old glass bead from Liberia ; given by W. Hinton, Esq. 



A carved wooden mask and two fetish figures from West 

 Africa ; given by Mrs. Hunting. 



A string of beads from King Prempeh's residence, Ashanti ; 

 given by Major F. A. Liston. 



Three hide shields from Angoniland ; given by Mrs. McKay. 



Scales and weights for gold dust and other objects from 

 Ashanti ; given by the Rev. J. Pole-Carew, Esq. 



A wooden club from the Sudan ; given by Mrs. Read. 



A wooden figure carved by a MuGanda for King Sunna 

 from Uganda ; given by the Rev. J. Roscoe. 



