ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. IQ 



Staff, ingot of copper, find other objects from Natal ; presented by Robert J. Mann, 

 Esq., F.E.G.S.; perforated stone ball and pounder used by the bushmen, presented by 

 Peter Sutherland, Esq., M.D., and a feather war head-dress of the Matabcli Kafirs, pre- 

 sented by Captain C. P. Carey, r.e. 



3. Et}mograj)liy of Asia and the Asiatic Islands. — A valuable collection of dresses, 

 weapons, &c., made by the donor dui-ing his expedition from Bhamo in Burmah, to 

 Yunnan in China ; presented by Major E. B. Sladen. 



Specimens from the Andaman Islands, Assam, and Birmah ; presented by the Director 

 of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



An extensive collection, comprising objects from Siam, Japan, Sumatra, Java, and the 

 other islands in the Asiatic Archipelago ; presented by the Zoological Society of Ams- 

 terdam. 



Objects from India, Assam, Japan, and the Asiatic Islands, including a remarkable 

 tobacco pipe of brass, made by the Battas of Sumatra ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Indian boomerang, presented by the Rev. W. Sparrow Simpson, F.S.A. ; Javanese 

 cloths and a Batta belt, presented by Mr. W. Hekking, of Haarlem; ancient Javanese 

 bronze, presented by Mr. J. C. P. Hotz, of the Hague; and Jajjanese objects, presented 

 by Mr. Nordhoek Heght, of Amsterdam. 



4. Ethnography of Oceania and Australasia. — An idol from Tahiti, and other objects; 

 presented by the Literary and Philosophical Society of Sheffield. 



Various specimens from the islands of the Pacific and Australia ; presented by A. W. 

 Franks, Esq. 



Specimens from the Pacific and New Zealand ; presented by William Bragge, Esq., 

 Captain H. AV. Feilden, Rev. W. Greenwell, Rev. W. Sparrow Simpson, Baron Sloet 

 tot Oldhuis, of Zwolle, W. J. Bernhard Smith, Esq., and Sir Walter C. Trevelyan, 

 Bart. 



5. Antiquities and Ethnography of America: — 



(a.) North America. — A wooden mask from Sitka, presented by Henry J. Gardiner, 

 Esq. ; and a Muskogie Indian dress, presented by Sir Walter C. Trevelyan, Bart. 



(b.) Central America and the West Indies. — Objects in terra-cotta and stone from 

 Mexico ; and fragments of pottery and a stone celt from the Mosquito Coast ; j^resented 

 by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Shell adzes from Barbadoes, presented by Edward Levien, Esq., f.s.a, 



(c.) South America. — A collection of singular wooden vessels in the form of figures, and 

 wooden mace-heads, found under a considerable depth of guano, on the North Macabi 

 Islands, off the Coast of Peru ; obtained by the late Josiah D. Harris, Esq., and presented 

 by Josiah Harris, Esq. 



A similar collection from the same place ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Antiquities of stone, and gold ornaments, from New Granada and Venezuela, and a 

 snuff tube from the Guahibo Indians, River Orinoco ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Singular stone found in a tomb in the United States of Columbia; presented by 

 Robert C. Joy, Esq. 



A stone implement from Santos, Brazil, presented by the Rev. W. S. Simpson ; bolas, 

 carved staff, and hlow-tube, presented by William Bragge, Esq. ; wooden vase from 

 Brazil, presented by JosejA Mayer, Esq., f.s.a.; and a collection of objects from the 

 Rio Tocantins, Brazil, and from Paraguay ; presented by the Hon. Robert Marsham. 



In addition to the donations above noticed, a few purchases have been made out of 

 the Christy Fund, now nearly exhausted ; they include a fine flint celt, found at Tooting, 

 Surrey, an Indian sword from Seringapatam, a harpoon with thrower, from Greenland, 

 and three stone objects from Mexico. 



The Christy Collection is open on Fridajrs by means of tickets, to be obtained at the 

 British Museum. There have been 827 visitors in 1871, as compared with 749 during 

 the previous year. 



Augustus W. FranJis. 



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