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By purchase : — 



A bronze shaft-hole axe-head of Itahan Late Bronze Age type, found 

 at Hengistbury Head, Hampshire. 



Two gold rings with niello inlay, from the Guilhon collection, one 

 Merovingian, the other Carohngian. 



Two silver annular brooches mth niello inlay, found at Coventry, 

 with thirteenth -century coins. 



Oriental Antiquities. 



A further instalment of the Eumorfopoulos Collection of Chinese 

 antiquities was paid for and 424 objects added in consequence : the 

 final division of the remainder with the Victoria and Albert Museum was 

 provisionally arranged, but remained to be carried through in 1938. 

 Other acquisitions of note were : — 



By donation : — 



From Mr, George Eumorfopoulos : fourteen objects of unglazed 

 pottery said to have been found near Chengte, Honan. 



From Mr. John Sparks : a figure of Pu-tai Ho-Shang, glazed stone- 

 ware, dated 2nd or 20th year of Ch'eng Hua, from a temple near 

 Chengchow, Honan. 



From Mr. Oscar Raphael : part of a wooden beam with ornamental 

 bronze attachment in position, from the Tomb of Lacquered Beams at 

 Ku Wei Ts'un, North Honan. 



From Sir Leonard WooUey's excavations at Al Mina, North Syria : 

 sixty objects of earthenware, glass and bronze. 



From the Islamische Kunstabteilung, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, in 

 recognition of a contribution by Sir Percival David, Bart. : 82 fragments, 

 3rd century onwards, from excavations at Ctesiphon. 



From the National Art-Collections Fund : four Japanese sUding 

 panels, painted with birds and flowers of the four seasons, Kano school, 

 circa 1600. 



By bequest of the late Charles Shannon : 388 prints and drawings, 

 being part of the Oriental section of the Ricketts and Shannon collection. 



By purchase : — 

 In addition to the penultimate portion of the Eumorfopoulos Chinese 

 Collection : a large series of pottery fragments, etc., from sites visited 

 in Makran and Southern Persia by Sir Aurel Stein. 



Ethnography. 



By donation : — 



From Capt. R. P. Wild : a large archaeological and ethnological 

 series from various sites in the Gold Coast and French West Africa. 



From Mr. H. St. J. Philby, CLE. : a collection of pottery, baskets 

 and other ethnographical objects, from Arabia. 



By purchase : — 

 A ceremonial staff with gold mounts and head, formerly the property 

 of Nana Kobina Amponsah II, Ohene of Busumtwi Stool, Ashanti, 

 Gold Coast. 



