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duced in the woof; a piece of very narrow width; all from the interior 
of Africa. Presented by Captain Clapperton and Major Denham . 
With these are a plain tob , or cloak, from the Niger Expedition, pre- 
sented by the Colonial Office; and another Foulah cloak, formed of 
various strips of cloth, from the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone, pre- 
sented by J. Whitfield , Esq. Shelf 2. Fly-flap, or brush ; female hair 
net; bag; cushion, covered with scarlet cloth; arrows, and quiver of 
the same with iron points ; hoe made of British bar iron ; Housa dagger ; 
cord ; specimens of prepared leather ; spindles, some with their cotton 
thread; shuttles; hanks of thread, white or blue, dyed with indigo ; samia 
aduga, or specimens of native silk, of yellow, green, and crimson ; a 
quantity of raw native cotton, and cocoons of native raw silk, very coarse, 
with the chrysalides of the silkworm still in it ; small skin bottle, for 
holding galena for colouring the eyelids, and small specimen of this 
mineral; all collected during the Niger Expedition, and presented 
by the Colonial Office and Captain II. Dundas Trotter , R.N. 
Bronze manilla, or African ring money; mat hat from the interior. 
Presented by Captain Duncan. Twenty-eight large opaque glass beads, 
worn round the necks of the women and camels in Abyssinia. Dress 
of grass cloth, worn by females ; kola or gora nuts ; nuts hollowed and 
used to hold a snuff ‘laid on the tongue ; gourd, shaped for medical 
purposes; specimen of native Indigo; all from Badagry.; comb, and 
pipe bowl, soldier’s belt for holding cartridges, from Dahomi. Presented 
by the Rev. J. Martin. Shelf 3. Hat, bow, quiver, and sword of a 
Bambara Chief, obtained in French Guiana, and presented by H. C. 
Rothery , Esq. Bow, spears, and fetish, from Fernando Po. Presented 
by the Rev. Theod. Muller. Hats, from the interior of Africa.. Pre- 
sented by Captain Fishbourne. Swords and quivers, from the interior 
of Africa; net hammock, from the interior of Africa. Presented by 
H. Bright , Esq. Dress, spears, and shield, from Abyssinia. Pre- 
sented by Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq. Tuarik saddle and spears; from 
Tripoli. Presented by C. Hanmer Dickson , Esq. Nubian spear, 
entwined with a snake’s skin, from Thebes, in Egypt. Presented by 
Aubrey Paul , Esq. Over Case 13, a loom for weaving narrow cloth, 
specimens of which are exhibited in the first division of this Case; from 
Ashantee. Presented by T. E. Bowdich; Esq. 
Cases 14, 15. North America: — Esquimaux dresses from 
Winter Island, and from Point Hope ; a steersman’s cap from West 
Georgia; men’s boots from Kotzebue Sound; women’s boots, from 
Cape Thomson; Lapland trousers, presented by Mr. G. Woodf all. 
Whalebone net, used by the Esquimaux for laying under their beds ; 
a wooden bowl, cup, and spoon made of the horns of the musk ox ; a 
bone ornament, from Savage Island ; a wooden box, a small basket, 
a pair of bone eye-shades, a bow-string, a lamp cut out of steatite, or 
pot stone ; brought to England by Captain Sir Edward Parry , rLiv. 
A dart thrower, from Point Barrow ; two large teeth of the walrus, from 
Behring’s Straits ; small harpoon, tipped with meteoric iron, bone sword, 
hollow bone instrument for sucking water out of a pond, and hone in- 
strument used in seal fishing, from Igloolik ; seal f skin, dressed by the 
Esquimaux of Savage Island, Hudson’s Straits ; skin bucket water 
vessel, from Winter Island; Esquimaux woman’s hair ornaments, from 
Savage Island; bundle of hair; harpoon made of bone and me- 
