ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 3I 



(6.) Oriental and Ethnographical : — 



A number of bronze vessels found in the Toda topes in the "Nilagiri Hills, as described 

 by Sir Walter Elliot at the International Congress of Prehistoric Archasology at 

 Norwich, 1868, p. 240 ; a well-preserved pilaster from the Tope at Amaravati ; three 

 relic caskets, two of crystal, and one of steatite, from ruined topes at Gudiwadah, 

 Masulipatam ; fourteen grants of land, engraved on copper, and mostly published in the 

 volumes of the "Indian Antiquary;" fifteen bronze figures found at Shoaygya; and 

 two bronze figures of Jaiua divinities found in Mysore ; all presented by Sir Walter 

 Elliot, K.C.S.I. 



An Indian grant of land engraved on three copper plates, published in the " Journal of 

 the Asiatic Society of Bombay," vol. ii., p. 3, 



An oviform vessel of stoneware, perhaps to contain some explosive compound, found 

 with many others at Bulandshahr, North "West Provinces ; presented by F. S. Growse, 

 Esq. C.I.E., B.C.S. 



Base of a vessel of pottery, with the figure of an animal engraved through slip, found 

 near Gulistan, Pishin ; presented by Sir Oliver St. John, K.C.S.i. 



Guitar from the Gold Coast; presented by Robertson Luxford, Esq. 



Drawings on wood and shells representing the dugong, made by Australian natives in 

 Clark Island, collected by R. W. Coppinger, Esq., m.d., of H.M.S. " Alert " ; presented 

 by the Lords of the Admiralty. 



Twenty ancient Peruvian vessels of pottery, including several of rare form, and two 

 strings of beads ; presented by R. D. Darbishire, Esq., r.s.A. 



A series of stone arrowheads from Islands off Cape Cod, Mass. ; presented by 

 H. E. Gifford, Esq. 



III. — Christy Collection. 



The following progress has been made in arranging and augmenting this collection, which 

 remains at 103, Victoria-street, Westminster, but will shortly be removed to the British 

 Museum. 



Six hundred additional slips have been prepared for the Registration Catalogue, with 

 careful sketches of the objects. 



The following donations have been received by the Christy Trustees, and by them 

 transferred to the Trustees of the British Museum. 



1. Prehistoric Antiquities of Europe, Asia, and Africa : — 



A series of flint flakes from the Drift, Thames Valley, Hackney ; from J. E. 

 Greenhill, Esq. A drift implement from Warren Hill, Suffolk ; from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Polished flint celt from Victoria Dock Extension, London, four stone implements from 

 the North of Scotland, and five flint arrowheads from Rome ; from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Two flint implements from Gizeh, Egypt ; from the Rev. Greville J. Chester. A 

 number of stone implements and flakes from Sakkara, Egypt ; from James Burgess, 

 Esq., LL.D. 



A quartzite implement of Drift type from the Sonthal Pergunnas, Bengal ; from Sydney 

 Combe, Esq. 



A celt and adze of black stone, collected by the late Sir Wyville Thomson in Japan ; 

 from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A celt of grey stone discovered on Gutzlaff Island, at the mouth of the Yang-tsze 

 Kiang River, near Shanghai ; from Charles Gould, Esq. 



2. Ethnography of Africa : — 



A series of brass weights used in weighing gold, from Ashanti; and an ivory 

 carving from West Africa ; from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



3. Ethnography of Asia : — 



Pairs of boots and leggings woi-n by a chief of the Hazaras of Central Afghanistan 



when on a visit to the British Army in Kandahar, 1879 ; from Sir Oliver St. John, K.c.S.l. 



Brass chain with strike-a-light from the Battas of Sumatra ; from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



4. Ethnography of Oceania and Australasia : — 



A knife with obsidian blade, from the Admiralty Islands ; from Miss Rogers. 



Spear with thickened butt, probably from the Tahitian Group ; a mace with jade head 

 from Torres Straits, two double-headed stone axes from Murray River, and a series of 

 utensils and weapons from the S. E. of New Guinea ; from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



5. Antiquities and Ethnography of America : — 



An earring of gold, representing a human face, with four pendent cascabels, found with 

 skeletons at Tehuantepec, Mexico ; a large series of ancient vases of pottery and stone 

 implements, from the State of Guadalajara, Mexico ; five gold nose and ear-ornaments, 

 from Caramanta, S. W. Antioquia, United States of Colombia; and two ancient 

 Peruvian vases representing human heads, one of them from the Beckford Collection, 

 and engraved in Marryat, " Pottery and Porcelain " : all from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Forty-four ancient Peruvian vases of various forms; presented by Walter K. Foster, 

 Esq., P.S.A. 



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