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A lion-skin head-dress from East Central A.f rica ; collected 

 Iby Lieut. H. Andrew, and given by Mrs. Andrew. 



A remarkable necklace of glass beads of ancient date, and 

 disc3 of ostrich egg-shell, taken trom the grave of a renowned 

 <}hief at Mansu, West Africa ; given by L. P. Davies, Esq. 

 Illustrated in Man, 1905, 1. 



An ear-ornament of stone of unusual size and weight, 

 obtained from a Masai, East Africa Protectorate ; collected 

 and given by A. C. Hollis, Esq. Illustrated in Man, 1905, 12. 



A series of ethnographical objects, including an Emir's 

 saddle, and a large wooden seat, from Northern Nigeria ; 

 collected by E. F. Martin, Esq., and given by the Pitt-Kivers 

 Museum, Oxford. 



Two wooden masks and three ivory carvings, from 

 Setti Cama, French Congo ; given by the Hon. Walter 

 Kothschild, m.p. 



A quiver with arrows, from the Bechuana, South Africa ; 

 given by Miss Isabel Wratislaw. 



A collection of ethnographical objects, including two 

 steatite carvings, one of unusual design and size, from 

 Mendi-land. West Africa. The carvings are illustrated in 

 Man, 1905, 57. 



An important and varied series of objects from the Wa- 

 Kikuyu, East Africa Protectorate ; collected by Mrs. S. L. 

 Hinde. 



A brass vase of unusual pattern from Ashanti and a 

 bronze-hilted dagger from Benin, West Africa. 



A series of ornaments and a horse's bit from Nigeria, 

 West Africa. 



A board and pieces for playing inancala, and five carved 

 ivories from the Upper Congo.. 



An axe, two clubs, and a carved staff from South-east 

 Africa. 



An iron spear, finely inlaid with brass, from the Touareg 

 of North Africa. 



Oceania. — An interesting series, comprising ornaments, 

 knives, clubs, apparatus for producing fire, and a stone mill, 

 from the Daleburra tribe, Mitchell District, Queensland, 

 Australia; collected and given by R. Christison, Esq. 



An important series, including coral carvings, grave- 

 ornaments, a model in wood of a fish containing the skull of a 

 chief {^Man, 1904, 86), from the Solomon Islands, a mask from 

 the New Hebrides, shark-teeth weapons from the Gilbert 

 Islands, a native chart showing the position of many of the 

 islands of the Marshall group, and the prevailing winds and 

 currents, from the Marshall Islands — this specimen is the 

 first that the Museum has been able to acquire,— and other 

 ethnographical objects from Miana, Torres, and Tasman 

 Islands ; from the collection of Rear-Admiral Davis, formed 

 during the cruise of H.M.S. Royalist in 1890-93. 



