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By purchase : — 



Two large masks and two drums, used at boys' initiation dances, 

 and a carved wooden figure said to be used in phallic worship, from the 

 Mendi, Sierra Leone. 



A large ethnographical collection from the Va Kwanyama, Luvando 

 and other tribes of Southern Angola. 



A large ethnographical series from the Bantu Kavirondo tribes of 

 Kenya Colony. 



An archaeological series, including pottery heads and stamps, and 

 copper and gold ornaments, from Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador, and an 

 Ethnographical series from the Jivaro, Yumbo and Otavaleiio Indians 

 of Ecuador. 



Four painted vases in Tiahuanaco II style, four blackware vases in 

 Chinese style, and textile fragments, aU from ancient Peru. 



A series of ancient pottery vases of various styles and a large carved 

 paddle from Peru, a large vase from the highlands of Ecuador ; and two 

 painted pottery vases fr'om the Zuiii, New Mexico. 



On loan : — 



A Burmese saddle with two side-pieces, a wooden slit-gong from the 

 Sudan, a wooden drum from Ashanti, and a wooden " taiaha " staff 

 from New Zealand, deposited on indefinite loan by H.M. the King. 



A large series of antiquities from Mexico have been deposited on 

 indefinite loan by an anonymous collector. 



Coins and Medals. 



By donation : — 



From M. Oscar Ravel : a tetradrachm of Cnossus of the fourth 

 century B.C. 



From the Right Honourable Lord Justice Clauson : ten silver coins 

 of Southern Italy, including fine staters of Thurium, Motya, Poseidonia 

 and Tarentum. 



From Mr. E. S. G. Robinson : a unique tetradrachm of Abdera of the 

 fifth century B.C. with new type Dionysus riding on a stag; a stater 

 of Melos of the fifth century B.C. ; a unique stater of Corinth with the 

 letter "K" concealed on the helmet, probably an artist's signature; 

 a fourth century tetradrachm of Ephesus of a new magistrate ; a didrachm 

 of Solus of the fifth century, hitherto only known from the Berlin specimen, 

 and a number of interesting Carthaginian coins. 



From Dr. Waldemar Wruck : a rare denarius of Faustina I, with 

 obverse favstina avg antonini.avg (no. pp), reverse concoedia. 



From M. P. Tinchant : a large series, in silver and in Aes, of 

 variants of coins previously in the Museum, mainly of the late second to 

 third century A.D. 



From Mr. Harold Mattingly and an anonymous donor : three silver 

 coins (two gilt) from Cyprus, representing unpublished variants of By- 

 zantine coins of about the twelfth century. 



