674 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1887. 



Indian Relics. (Purchased.) 



J. W. Emmert, Bristol, Tennessee. 16907. '87. (hi) 



Fossil Plant, Stigmaria fucoides (?). 



J. W. Emmert, Bristol, Tennessee. 18907. '87. (xiv) 



Objects of Art: Pair of antique bronze vases, modern bronze bowl, bronze candle- 

 stick, pair of shoes, and pair of slippers, from Damascus; peasant's traveling 

 box, etolkjearee village cart (model), cariole (model), portrait (Christian IV, 

 reigned from 1596 to 1648), peasant's jackkuife, carved wooden spoon, carved 

 wooden jewel case, pair of white cotton knit gloves, pair of embroidered woolen 

 gloves, peasant's scarlet belt (five silver ornaments), forty-five photographs of 

 costumes, doll (costume complete) from Norway ; Swedish vase, from Sweden ; 

 blue shoe, russet slippers, two-stringed musical instrument, straw basket, brass 

 tray, pair earthen pitchers, vase, and plate, from Tunis; glass jugs and goblets, 

 from Bohemia; Hungarian porcelain jug, plate, cup and saucer, earthen pitcher, 

 porcelain plate, blue porcelain cup and plate, gravy dish, from Hungary; plate, 

 representation of ancient ware and jug, from Switzerland ; majolica pitcher and 

 plate, figures of peasants coming to market eating, fisherman, fisherman seated, 

 Capo de Monti vase, earthen lamp (Bacchus), copy of Etruscan lamp, from 

 Italy ; earthen antique lamp, from excavated palace of Caesar ; antique lamp, 

 from Roman columbaria; antique lamp, modern Roman brass lamp, copy of 

 Pompeian lamp, copy of two Pompeian bronze lamps, reproduction of catacomb 

 lamp, copy of antique inkstand, Roman bronze ; statuettes : Mercury of John 

 of Bologna; marble base from tomb of Augustus; Remus and Romulus and the 

 wolf; Roman chariot and horses; copy of antique biga in Vatican; pair of child- 

 ren's plaited rag shoes, from Northern Italy ; earthen lamp, from Joseph's tomb, 

 Syria ; pair of wooden sandals, from the island of Rhodes ; pair of red shoes, 

 from Athens, Greece ; set of Pan's pipes, inkstand and pen-holder, from Cairo, 

 Egypt; lace cap, straw bonnets, from Antwerp ; German beer jug and bottle, from 

 Vienna Exhibition ; German and Italian peasants' slippers ; pair of Holland shoes ; 

 reproduction of old French coffee-pot (two hundred years ago); double bottle ; 

 •small nappy faience de Gien ; enameled brass Byzantine prayer tablet ; tenth cen- 

 tury ; silver prayer amulet, in constant use by members of the Greek church ; small 

 piece insertion, Russian peasant's, from Moscow market, set Hungarian jewelry, 

 one brooch and two ear-rings, copied from originals two hundred years old (in a 

 case); silver brooch, design being the bow they place above a horse in harness, 

 from Russia; silver filigree cup-holder and earthen cup, from silver bazar, Dam- 

 ascus; silver bracelet, six coins set in filigree, from silver bazar, Damascus, 

 Syria; silver filigree cross, from Genoa, Italy; silver amulet, from the mountains 

 of Lebanon, supposed to be two hundred years old; silver bracelet and neck- 

 lace, from Roumania; silver chain with pendants of coins of Christian IV, 1617; 

 and Christian V, 1654, pair gilt silver bangle rings, supposed to be two hundred 

 years old, ancient silver brooch, silver filigree buttons, peasant's coat, from Nor- 

 way ; silver ear-rings, from Cairo; silver necklace (chain work with forty-eight 

 bangles), modern Egyptian, silver purse with sliding cover, from Egypt; pam- 

 phlet : Funereal Discourse, Samuel Mather, D. D., of Bostou, Massachusetts, 

 printed 1738; books: "Psalms and Hymns," " Discourse Concerning the Nature 

 of Man," 1694, "De Pace Regis," Pulton, 1609, "Exercitations on the Epistle to 

 the Hebrews," J. Owen, D. D., 1663, "Controversy upon the Catechism," Andrew 

 Willet, 1634; reproduction of a catacomb lamp of the fourth and fifth centuries; 

 antique bronze Pompeian lamp; small unmounted photograph of the catacombs ; 

 Russian tea cloth; Russian toilet towel (legend, "A man can have gray hair but 

 the devil in his heart") ; toilet towel, bought at Smyrna ; and ancient oriental 

 embroidery, part of a mantel cloth, from Constantinople; pina sash (fiber of 

 the pine- apple) ; part of a Turkish costume, embroidered ; and one photograph. 

 (Deposited.) 

 Mrs. E. S. Brinton, Washington, District of Columbia, 18908, '87. (i) 



