ARTICLES. 
ROOM I.] 
piece of cloth, formed of similar strips, but the check pat¬ 
tern produced in the wearing. A piece of very narrow 
cloth, of the original width before it is made up for use. 
From Africa. Presented by Major Denham and Captain 
Clapper ton. 
A Foulah cloak, formed of very narrow strips of cloth; 
a cap, and a musical instrument, from the neighbourhood 
of Sierra Leone. Presented by J. Whitfield , Esq. 
A cap, made of a fine mat, from the Cape of Good 
Hope. Presented by Capt. Duncan , 1780. 
Several pieces of cloth formed of narrow strips on a 
white gfound; a white cloth, painted with black patterns; 
two others made of different coloured stripes; and a single 
stripe formed of three different colours; a piece of very 
fine matting; a child’s umbrella, or sunshade, covered 
with various coloured and printed cottons, and stripes of 
woollen cloth, with a carved wooden top; an iron padlock 
and keys; four variously shaped earthenware tobacco-pipe 
heads; a small earthen pan, with a deeply notched edge ; 
a small basket; a string of beads resembling spangles, 
formed from shells; a fly-flapper, made from hair; a 
shuttle and reel of thread belonging to the loom; a mu¬ 
sical instrument; a leather pouch, surrounded by stripes 
of leather, and worked with leather and cloth in different 
patterns; a short dagger, and a wooden handle and sheath, 
ornamented with brass; a pair of worked sandals; two 
arrows, with steel heads; a large leathern cushion; and a 
stool of carved zesso wood. On the top of the Case is a 
loom for weaving the narrow cloth, used by the Africans. 
All from Ashantee. Presented by T. E . Bow die h, Esq,, 
and described in his Travels , p. 807, fyc- 
Case. 7- Two baskets made of a species o i juncus; 
two water-baskets made of the bark of a birch; a bladder, 
containing a pigment used by the natives; a quiver, some 
arrows, and a bow; the rope of a canoe; a necklace formed 
of shells; and an axe, the iron of which was probably ob¬ 
tained from an English or American ship, from Terra del 
Fuego. 
Case 8. A coat of mail formed of seven folds of horse 
skin, used by the Araucarian Indians on the west coast of 
South America, taken from the body of an Indian who 
was shot by a party of Chilian Indians, sent to disperse an 
