74 ACCOUNTS, ETC. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Piece of iron currency, pestle and mortar, two clay pipes, 

 and other objects in stone and leather from the Upper Mendi 

 Country, Sierra Leone ; given by T. J. Alldridge, Esq. 



Four chevron beads from Nigeria ; given by Major Burdon. 



Cause of the Ibo of Oguta Lake, S. Nigeria ; given by 

 Major Gallwey, c.m.g., d.s.o., Divisional Commissioner. 



An important collection of weapons, utensils, and ornaments 

 from the tribes of the Uganda Protectorate ; given by Sir 

 Harry Johnston, G.C.M.G., H.M. Special Commissioner. 



A cast bronze panel with representation of a horse's head, 

 from Benin City; given by 0. H. Read, Esq., F.s.A. 



Piece of slate from the monument at Krugersdorp, used in 

 voting for Boer independence in 1881 ; given by Captain G. 

 D. Stonestreet. 



Weapons and ornaments from the Masai and other tribes 

 of British East Africa ; given by H. R. Tate, Esq. 



Series of wooden figures used as oracles in the Yassi Secret 

 Society, and complete costume of a priestess of the Bundu 

 Secret Society from Sherbro and Mendiland, West Africa; 

 ethnographical collection from the Basoko, Bazende and other 

 tribes of the Congo Free State, including knives and axes 

 with copper blades, and a series of bronze bangles, &c., used 

 as currency ; ethnographical series from Bihe, . Angola, 

 including wooden utensils. 



Oceania. — Shell armlet with raised ornament from Fiji ; 

 given by J. Burtt, Esq. 



A series of weapons, ornaments, and message-sticks from 

 the Dalleburra Tribe, North Queensland; given by Robert 

 Christison, Esq. 



Cannibal fork, club, pendants of whale-ivory, cocoa-nut 

 ciip, and other objects from Fiji ; given by A. G. Griffiths, 

 Esq'.- 



Three palm-wood utensils for splitting sago-palms from 

 'British New Guinea ; given by C. G. Murray, Esq. 



"' Carvecl pole from canoe-house at Narovo Island, and 

 string bag from Isabel Island, Solomon Islands ; given by 

 C.'M. Woodford, Esq., H.B.M. Commissioner, Tulagi. 



An ethnographical series from Collingwood Bay, British 

 New Guinea, including some fine examples of stone-headed 

 clubs. ' 



ATtierica. — Quartzite arrow-head from the Hudson's Bay 

 Copapany's territory, Canada ; given by W. H. Brown, Esq. 



Painted pottery ^ bottle and jug from Surinam, Dutch 

 . Guiana i given by the^^ Misses Mabel and Hilda Burrows. 



Obsidian implements from Mariposa Countj'-, California; 

 given by Stuart Deans, Esq. 



