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



A brazier of coarse pottery found on a sliiekh's tomb near Wady Haifa, Egypt, presented 

 by Henry Wallls, Esq. 



A coat, ostentatiously patched, worn as an uniform by the forces of the Mahdi, pre- 

 sented by Surgeon Major H. J. W. Barrow. 



A box, covered with cowries, the sacred emblem of the " Adamu Orisha," or worship of 

 Eleda ; " Edan " or tops of brass staves of the Oshogbo, an ancient Secret Society, and a 

 cloth (shaki) for canying them, as well as several figures and masks of painted wood, all 

 from Lagos ; presented by Ajassah, late Apena (native judged to King Docemo of 

 Lagos. 



A number of wooden masks and figures, an Ifa (fetish) oracle, and a wooden stool, 

 from Lagos, presented by the Lagos Government. 



Eight daggers, and an armlet of astragali, from West Africa, presented by R. D. Dar- 

 bishire, Esq., f.s a. 



Sixty brass weights from Ashanti, presented by Henry Willett, Esq., F.G.S. 



A fetish dress from the interior of West Africa, and a carved stone figure and two 

 armlets of elephant hoof, from the Sherbro River. 



Two painted wooden masks worn at the native customs of Dahomey, and a fetish table 

 from Porto Novo, presented by Sir James Marshall, c.m.g. 



Cruciform ingot of copper from the Upper Coanza River, West Africa, pi'esented by 

 Lieut. Innes Gairdner, R.N. 



Two boulders ot greenstone, with picked designs by Bushmen, from a kopje about ten 

 miles from Kimberley, South Africa, presented by the Kiraberley Local Committee of 

 the Colonial and. Indian Exhibition, through F. Schute, Esq. A painting on rock by 

 Bushmen. 



An Abakweta dress, worn by young Zulus daring the circumcision rites. 



An assegai taken from the chief Langabalelli at his capture, and a brass armlet 

 formerly belonging to the Tembu Chief Mfanta, presented by Clement D. Webb, Esq. 

 A carved stick from East Griqualand, Cape Colony, presented by J. C. Haarhoff 

 Esq. 



A life-size model of a Maori man with tattooed face, from the Colonial and Indian 

 Exhibition, presented by the Agent-General for New Zealand. A Maori spade (heko) 

 of wood, and two framed photographs of a .Maori store-house and a chiefs tomb, presented 

 by Sir Walter Buller, K. c.m.g., f.r.s. A large cloak made of feathers of the apteryx 

 ''kiwi) from New Zealand. 



Necklace of whale teeth and specimens of pottery from Fiji, and a neck ornament and 

 other specimens from New Guinea, presented by Captain W. H. Henderson, r.n. 

 Conical cap woven by spiders on a framework set up for the purpose, from Fiji, presented 

 by Miss C. F. Gordon Cumming. 



A number of weapons, ornsiments, &c., from New Guinea and Northern Queensland, 

 presented by Charles Price, Esq. 



A double-pointed implement, seven stone axes, three hafted knives, and one without 

 a handle, collected at Carandotta, North Australia, by S. W. Donner, Esq., and pre- 

 sented by R. D. Darbishire, Esq, F.s. A. 



A number of specimens of dress, weapons, and implements, collected in the Solomon 

 Islands, and presented by H. B. Guppy, Esq., m.b., r.n. 



A chert knife of ancient Mexican work. A small earthenware vase with painted orna- 

 ment, from Chiriqui, Panama, presented by Oscar Marescaux, Esq. 



Forty-one stone arrow-heads from the United States of America, and an implement 

 made from a large shell, from the Kanawha River, Virginia, presented by T. W. IT. Ro- 

 binson, Esq., F.s.A. 



III. — Christ!/ Collection, 



Six hundred and forty-nine 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 hj them 

 transferred to the Trustees of the British Museum : — 



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



Implements from the Drift, from Gray's Inn-road, London, and two Drift implementa 

 from France, presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Two Drift implements from Chelles, Seine-et-Marne, France, presented by John 

 Evans, Esq,, P.s a., f.r.s. 



Twelve flints from the Thames, a stone celt from the River Medway, a polished celt 

 from Furness, two pierced axes from Norway, sixteen stone arrow heads from Poland, 

 an arrowhead from Tulligarvey, co. Cavan, two stone celts from Yezo, Japan, and a 

 flint armlet from Sheikh Abool Kourneh, Thebes, Egypt, presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A flint celt from Bornholm, presented by the Rev. James Beck. 



Cores and flakea from Sukkur on the Indus, presented by James Burgess, Esq., ll.d. 



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