5 
ETHNOGRAPHICAL ROOM. 
ON THE LEFT OF THE CENTRAL SALOON. 
The Visitor to the Museum, having passed the Entrance in Great 
Russell Street, enters a spacious Court, with the main building of the 
New Museum fronting him. Upon entering the. Hall he can either 
turn to the left to the Gallery of Antiquities hereafter described, or, in 
the more regular course of his Circuit, ascend by the Great Staircase 
to the 
ETHNOGRAPHICAL ROOM. 
In the open room are— 
A plaster cast of the shield of Achilles. Modelled by Flaxman. 
Model of the Thugs, made by a native artist at Madras. Pre¬ 
sented by Mrs. B. W. Horne. 
A Model of a moveable Temple, called in the Carnatic, Therup, or 
Rhudum. Presented by Charles Marsh , Esq., 1793. 
A Chinese bell, from a Buddhist temple near Ningpo. The upper 
part ornamented with an imperial dragon, the national emblem of China, 
crouching, and forming the handle. Beneath this is the orifice where 
the clapper has been placed. The upper part is decorated with 
figures of Buddh, cast in salient relief, and covered with an inscription, 
also in relief, separated by four broad bands, of large characters, being 
eight lines of poetry relative to the Buddhist religion, out of one of the 
religious books of this sect. The smaller inscriptions, in Chinese and a 
Sanscrit character, are entitled the Prayer of Fuh (Buddh); with a list of 
names of believing doctors and faithful ladies. The inscriptions at the 
lower part contain a similar list of names, and the names and titles of 
the makers, of the authorities of the Teen-pe-ling temple, and of 
the civil and military officers of the city of Ningpo under whom the 
bell was cast, in the 19th regnal year of Taou Kwang, the present 
emperor, the 36th cyclary year, on a morning of the eighth moon 
(a. d. 1839-40). Presented by HER MAJESTY, 1844. 
Models of various cromlechs or sepulchres of the ancient Britons, viz.* 
of the Chun Quoit, Cornwall; the Trevethy stone, near St. Cleer; the 
Lanyan Quoit, near Penzance; one at Duffrin, S. Wales; the double 
cromlech at Plas Newydd, Anglesey; and the cromlech at Mofra. 
All presented by R. Tongue , Esq. 
Model of part of Blackfriars Bridge. Model of Lord Nelson’s ship, 
the Victory, and the brigantine Mercury. 
Two Models of the church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, 
and another of the church of the Nativity at Bethlehem. 
Cases 1, 2. Shelf 1. China.— Mock spears, placed on the walls 
of Woosung to intimidate the British forces, found there in 1842. Three 
soldiers’ hats; bow and arrows, one to give a signal by whistling; 
an arrow, with a rocket attached, from Woosung. Presented by 
Capt. Sir Everard Home , Bart., R.N. Matchlock ; vane of a boat; 
sailor’s hat; military boots; shoes, one pair presented by Mr. Culli- 
ford; a pair for a lady; ladies* gloves; slow match, and sight of a 
cannon. Presented by Sir E. Belcher , R.N. Tally of a Chinese 
