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



in Piedmont, from Dr. Clement Le Neve Foster ; a tripod earthenware pot made by the 

 peasantry of Jutland, from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



2. Ethnography of Africa. — Two lip ornaments worn by women of the Dor tribe, E. 

 Central Africa, from Colonel A. Lane Fox, v.p.s.a. ; iron plate used in barter in the same 

 region, and Tunisian fiddle, from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Carved ivory box and cover, probably made in Congo in the 16th century, from Wil- 

 liam Bragge, Esq., f.s.a. ; three caps from Kabenda, Loango, from E.. D. Darbishire, 

 Esq., F.S.A. ; wooden carving from the Cross River, near Old Calabar, from John 

 Davidson, Esq. ; two dresses made of tree-bark, stated to have been brought from Old 

 Calabar, from Richard Evans, Esq. ; chaplet worn by the women of Asaba, Yariba, 

 from Colonel A. Lane Fox, v.p.s.a.; paddle and two swords from West Africa, from 

 A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Two knob-kerries and part of a third, from Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony, from Georo^e 

 M. Atkinson, Esq. ; stone hammer used for sharpening Assagai heads, from the ruins of 

 a kraal of the Amaswazi tribe, near Delagoa Bay, from E. C. Buxlon, Esq. ; discoidal 

 pebble and cubes of iron pyrites, from Cape Colony, from Mrs. Carey-Hobson ; two 

 perforated stone balls used by the Bushmen as weights for their digging-sticks, from 

 Dr. John Shaw, of Colesberg, South Africa. 



3. EtJinography of Asia. — Arabian dagger with silver-mounted hilt, from John Hender- 

 son, Esq., F.S.A. ; pair of Biluch sandals, from Captain Oliver B. C. St. John, r.e. 



Pair of shark-skin shoes worn by fishermen, Kattywar, Bombay Presidency, from John 

 Evans, Esq., f.e.s. : Persian steel-headed arrows, two Sikh war quoits, pair of brass 

 anklets, ivory statuette of a dancing girl, wooden boomerang, and a " sarunga " or musical 

 instrument, from Hindostan, battleaxe used by the Hill tribes of Central India, Garo 

 sword, chanque shell worn as au ornament by the Nagas of Assam, and a spear from the 

 Kurtala Naga tribe, from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Bow, quiver, and arrows, sword and shield, taken at the re-capture of Dewangiri, Bhotan, 

 by the 55th Regiment under Colonel Hume, C.B., 2nd April 1865, from Colonel Hume, 

 C.B., and Major Hume, of the 55th Regiment, through the United Service Institution. 



Steel boomerang from Madura, Southern India, from M. J. Walhouse, Esq. 



Burmese carved ivory mortar from William Bragge, Esq., f.s.a. ; socketed bronze im- 

 plement obtained at Hotha, Northern Shan States, and other specimens obtained during 

 the expedition from Bhamo to Yunnan, in 1868, from Robert Gordon, Esq., c.E. 



Chinese compass, from the Rev. R. C. Burton ; ivory models of Chinese standards 

 from A. W. Franks, Esq. ; a collection of Aino objects obtained by the donor in the 

 country, from Lieut. Swinton C. Holland, R.N. ; Japanese official sword with its sheath 

 and sash, formerly worn by the donor, from Mr. Toda Saburo, of Japan. 



4. Ethnography of the Malay Peninsula and of the Asiatic Islands. — Pair of cock-spurs 

 from Singapore, Malay areca chopper and pen, leaves used by the Malays for smoothing 

 kris sheaths and hafts, others for imparting the final polish, and varnish for finishing them 

 off, from Edward Armstrong, Esq. ; three krises and hide shield from the Malay Penin- 

 sula, sword and " papatil" or small adze used by kris-fitters, from Palembang, Sumatra; 

 " jumbiya" Arab dagger obtained at Dilli, Sumatra; Malay pirate fork, and Dyak quiver 

 of poisoned arrows for the blowpipe ; from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Spoon from the Island of Amboyna, from the Re'*. R. C. Burton; three small arrows 

 made from the midrib of a leaf, from the North coast jf New Guinea, from Colonel A. 

 Lane Fox, v.p.s.a. ; wooden spear from the S. E. coast of New Guinea, from A. W. 

 Franks, Esq. ; wooden drum taken by the donor out of a large native hut at Pigsville, 

 in the same part of the island, during the surveying voyage of H.M.S. " Fly," in 1842- 

 1846, from Captain Edward Porcher, R.N. 



5. Ethnography of Oceania and Australasia. — Two strings of shell-work used as money 

 in the Solomon Islands, sash from the island of Santa Cruz, dress used in dances in the 

 Banks' Islands, and stone adze-head from Leper's Island, New Hebrides, from the Rev. 

 R. H. Codrington ; an ear- plug, necklace, shell-work amulet, a small piece of cord, and a 

 tobacco-pipe made from a shell, probably all from the Solomon Islands, collected by the 

 late Bishop Patteson, from Miss Patteson ; an obsidian-headed lance from the Admiralty 

 Islands, from the Rev. W. S. Simpson, d.d., f.S.a. 



Obsidian-headed lance from the Admiralty Islands, wooden shield ornamented with a 

 mosaic of mother-of-pearl shell, three clubs and three paddles, probably all from New 

 Ireland, wooden javelin from the island of New Georgia, Solomon Group, bone-tipped 

 arrows from the New Hebrides, two adzes with jade bla,des, and wooden figure, from New 

 Caledonia, handled stone adze and two clubs, from the Fiji Islands, spear from Samoa, 

 wooden adze for splitting bread-fruit, from Tahiti, four adzes with elaborately carved 

 wooden handles, from Mangaia, Harvey Islands, four stone implements and a wooden 

 flute, from New Zealand, armour made of cocoa-nut fibre, from the Kingsmill Islands, and 

 shell necklace, tapa and grass belts, from other islands of Micronesia, from A. W. 

 Franks, Esq. 



Spear from Samoa, and two long clubs from Tahiti, from the Rev. R. C. Burton ; stone 

 bread-fruit pounder, probably from the Tahitian Islands, from Professor T. Rupert Jones, 

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