120 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, • 1834. 



Papuans, Nvio Guinea: A. P. Goodwin — Continued. 



Bird beak head-dress 1 



Baskets 2 



Cinctures — palm-leaf fiber 4 



Wood carvings 4 



Net bag 1 



Lime boxes for betel-nut chewers 7 



Lime spoons, wood and bone 12 



Wooden bat 1 



Cuttlefish-shell spoons 8 



Bamboo tube of native glue 1 



Cuttlefish-shell gorgets 1 



Shell armlets and bracelets 8 



Bamboo flute 1 



Fish net 1 



In some of the entries given above, the numbers include several spec- 

 imens. Omitting pottery, antiquities, examples of textiles, fishing, and 

 navigation, the number of purely ethnological specimens received dur- 

 ing the year will amount to not far from four thousand. 



