14 BRITISH MUSEUM 



A large ethnographical series, including baskets, tools and weapons, 

 from the Bamileke tribe, Cameroons under French Mandate. 



Four wooden masks, a slit gong and a wooden trumpet, also from the 

 Bamileke tribe. 



A large ethnographical series from the Ovimbundu, Kwanyama and 

 other tribes of Central and Southern Angola. 



Two ancient pottery vessels from Oaxaca, Mexico. 



A carved stone standing figure holding a double-bladed axe, from 

 Costa E-ica. 



An ethnographical series from the Wei Wei and Wapisiana Indians, 

 and an archaeological series from British Guiana. 



Deposited by the Christy Trustees : — 



A Maya Dictionary, composed by J. P. Perez. 



A large wooden seat with carved figures, a carved wooden door frame 

 in four pieces, and an old wooden mask, from the Bamileke tribe, 

 Cameroons under French Mandate. 



Thirteen pottery vases from ancient Peru, mainly of Nasca style. 



Coins and Medals. 



By donation : — 



From Mr. E. S. G. Robinson : two of three tetradrachms of Mende 

 of the 5th century B.C., showing Dionysus holding a wine-cup, riding on 

 his ass, and a unique gold stater of Cilicia, struck by a Persian satrap 

 in the second quarter of the 4th century B.C. 



From Mr. H. C. Hoskier : a gold quinarius of Faustina II, with 

 reverse Concordia Diva. 



From Mr. J. B. Howe : a unique gold mohur of the Moghul Emperor 

 Humayun (a.d. 1530-1556), one of the earliest known Moghul coins 

 struck in India. 



By purchase : — 

 A denarius of Diadumenian as Augustus, one of the two first known. 

 Also, as usually, large selections from hoards of Roman coins pur- 

 chased from the finders under the law of Treasure Trove. 



Laboratory. 



A reorganization both of accommodation and of staff, allowing 

 greater speciaKzation, enabled the Laboratory to carry out more work of 

 cleaning and preservation than even in the previous year. A large 

 quantity of material from the Museum collections, notably a further 

 section of the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities, has 

 been cleaned and reconditioned. Objects submitted have in some 

 cases been proved modern, in other cases, though previously suspected, 

 have been authenticated ; an example of the latter class was an 

 important Sumerian head which was shown by the presence of certain 

 salts to be from the same quarry at least as the body, to which it fitted. 



