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hawk, clubs, knives, adzes, and a wooden coat of armour. Shelf 2. 
Various fishing lines; hooks, line for a harpoon, lines made of 
sinews and seaweed (a species of fucus); various hooks, and models 
of fishing canoes, and of natives with their dresses; quivers, with 
arrows tipped with bone, and harpoons from Nootka Sound and 
Oonalashka. Pi'esented by Sh' Joseph Banks, Captain James 
Cook, R. iV., Archibald Menzies, Bsq., and R. Brinsley Hinds, Bsq. 
Shelf 3. Waterproof fishing jackets, made of the intestines of the 
whale, from Nootka Sound; several caps of wood, representing the 
heads of beasts, birds, or seals ; head of wood, ornamented with bristles; 
caps of various shapes and colours, some of basket work, with re¬ 
presentations of the whale fishery, worked in colours ; others resem¬ 
bling those on the head of the figures in the model canoes; line for 
harpoon, made of sinew ; others for fishing, made of seaweed; fishing 
arrows, and harpoons, wdth detaching points of bone, from Nootka and 
Oonalashka. Presented by the same. 
Cases 18,19. N. America. —Shelf 1. Specimens of sculpture, rude 
imitations of the human form, wmmen carrying children ; masks; birds 
made of wood, and containing stones, used as rattles, from Nootka 
and Oonalashka. Shelf 2. Clubs, hatchets, combs, spoons, eating 
bowls, hooks, lines; bread made of the inner bark of the pine tree; 
knives, and spoons, from the north coast of x4merica, Oonalashka, and 
Nootka. Lip ornaments from Oonalashka. Slate pipe-bowls, cu¬ 
riously carved, from Nootka Sound : one presented by Mr. J. Dou¬ 
bleday. Bows and arrows; hooks used in the salmon fishery. Pre¬ 
sented by Lieut. Hall, R.N. Shelf 3, Snow-shoes, models of canoes, 
bracelets, earrings, from the north-west coast of America. Magic drum 
of an Iceland witch. 
Cases 20, 21. N. America. —Shelf 1. Various specimens of basket 
work from the north coast. Shelf 2. The inner bark of a species of 
cypress (cupressus thuyoides), in its different states of preparation, for 
making mats, articles of dress, &c.; a garment or cloak, painted with 
human figures, made by the natives of Banks’s Island. Shelf 3. Mats 
and cloaks made of the same material. One specimen, and needles for 
making the same, presented by Lieut. Hall, R.N. 
Case 22. N. America. — Shelf 1. Seal-skin dress, dog harness for 
a sledge, and throwdng stick, from Labrador. Shelf 2. Child’s cradle, 
scalps; calumets, or pipes; beads and necklace; model of a cradle, 
showing the manner in wLich the Flathead Indians of the Columbia 
River compress their children’s skulls. Indian spoon, made of the 
bone of a Penguin. Bracelets. Presented by R. Brinsley Hinds, 
Esq., R.N. Shelf 3. Model of a canoe, made of birch bark, and 
pair of flower-pots, made of the same and quills of the porcupine, the 
work of the Mic-mac Indians. Presented by Dr. Parish. Baskets 
of the same ; pipe, roll of tobacco, and vase, from Canada. Wampurp 
belts of the North-American Indians; boxes of birch bark ; two ancient 
Carrib idols and celts from Jamaica; belts used by the Iroquois 
Indians to bind their prisoners. 
Cases 23, 24. Mexico.- —Shelf 1. Bows made of sinew and wood, 
and arrows tipped w'ith obsidian, from Port Trinidad and California. 
Shelf 2. Objects from Mexico :—various terracotta figures of divi¬ 
nities and chiefs, &c., from the tombs of Anahuac; and other terra- 
