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Two wooden pins used by the natives of Swan River, and dentated stone S2)ear-head, 

 from Hanover Bay, Western Australia, from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



6. Antiquities and Etiniography of America : — 



(a.) North America. — A faw Esquimaux objects, bowl of a tobacco-pipe carved in 

 walrus ivory, and inlaid with haliotis shell, probably from Sitka, and bone club from 

 Nootka Sound, from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A set of gambling sticks from the N. W. Coast, from William Bragge, Esq., F.S.A. > 

 another set obtained at Metlakatla, British Columbia, In 1866, from (Japtain Edwin 

 Porcher, K.N. ; a stone ball found in Vancouver's Island, from Professor T. Rupert Jones, 

 F.G.S. ; model of a Greenland kayak, harpoon and arrow, probably from the Aleutian 

 Islands, and a model of a baby's cradle used during the process of flattening the head by 

 the Saeliss or Flathead Indians, from the Rev. W. S. Simpson, d.d. 



Bow captured from the Modoc Indians after the " Three Days'" battle in the Lava 

 Beds, 17th April 1873, from H. Wallace Attwell. Esq., Correspondent of the " Sacra- 

 mento Record " ; two arrows from the same tribe, from William Simpson, Esq. ; and two 

 stone arrowheads from California, from A. AV. Franks, Esq. 



Stone implements, arrowheads, and a few fragments of pottery, found in various parts 

 of Canada, from Sir Duncan Gibb, Bart., 11. D., y.G.S. ; fragments of pottery from Indian 

 grave mounds at Tecuraseh, Bondhead, Lake Simcoe, Canada West, from the Rev. W. S. 

 Simpson, D.D. ; and various arrowheads found at Amelia, Virginia, from Capt. M. W. E. 

 Gosset. 



(&.) Central America and the West Indies. — Three perforated stone balls, four other 

 stone implements, obsidian core, carving in stone, and three terra-cotta objects, all found 

 in Guatemala, from His Excellency Edwin Corbett, Esq., H. M. Minister to Guate- 

 mala. 



Two flint lance-heads from Balize, another from Peten, obsidian core from the Island 

 of Ruatan, stone celt from Trujillo, another from Copan, terra-cotta objects from Palenque, 

 and terra-cotta vase in form of a man, probably from Honduras, from A. W. Franks, 

 Esq. 



A piece of dress material prepared from the bark of a species of Castilloa, by the Carib 

 Indians of Nicaragua, from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Two stone celts from Jamaica, and a number of other stone implements from the Island 

 of St. Vincent, from A. W. Franks, Esq. ; cast of a small Carib amulet found in the 

 matrix in which the " fossil man " from Guadeloupe, now at Paris, was enveloped, from 

 M. Paul Gervais, of the Museum, Paris. 



(c.) South America. — Painted stone implement of Carib type from Guiana, from Dr. 

 James M. Foster, F.S.A. ; buck wax from Guiana, from R. Swain, Esq. 



A valuable collection of objects obtained from the Indians of the lower part of the 

 Ucayali River, Peru, from Frederick James Stevenson, Esq. 



Ancient Peruvian basket, fragments of cloth, spindles, &c., from R. D. Darbishire, 

 Esq., F.S.A. ; a collection of Peruvian antiquities, including a very remarkable wooden 

 " chicha " cup, on which is incrusted in coloured mastic a subject representing the advent 

 of the Spaniards, found in an Aymara grave, near Puno, Lake Titicaca; a small wooden 

 cup in the hollow of which is sculptured a group of two oxen, yoked, and a gold disc, 

 found in graves in the same locality ; a bronze mace-head found at Sorata, five silver 

 discs found in a grave at Huancane, in the Lake Titicaca disti'ict, and a number of 

 earthenware vases, fragments of woven cloth, slings?, spindles, &c., obtained from graves 

 at Arica, all from David Forbes, Esq., f.e.s. ; a painted terra-cotta vase in form of a 

 warrior, from A. W. Franks, Esq. ; a coil of silver riband, 1^ inches wide, from a tomb 

 near Lake Titicaca, from J. Park Harrison, Esq. 



Three modern Aymara flutes, " pj^assa " or clay used for mixing with food, by the 

 Aymara Indians of the Department of La Paz, Bolivia ; two bone harpoon-heads, four 

 necklaces, and part of a fishing-line made of seaweed, from TIerra del Fuego ; from David 

 Forbes, Esq., F.K.S. 



The Christy Trustees have likewise transferred as an addition to the Christy Collec- 

 tion, a portion of the Collection of the late J. F. Lucas, Esq., consisting of a number of 

 stone implements, found chiefly In Derbyshire, which they have purchased from funds at 

 their disposal. 



The following objects have been purchased by the Trustees of the British Museum out 

 of the Christy Fund, now exhausted : — 



An ancient iron dha with a Tamil inscription, a battle-axe used by the Hill Tribes of 

 India, and a singular double pointed weapon with a small central hand shield, made of 

 steel inlaid with gold, from HIndostan. 



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

 British Museum. During the year there have been 864 visitors as compared with 871 in 

 the previous year. 



Augustus W. Franks. 



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