6 MISCELLANEOUS [ETHNOGRAPHICAL 
and quivers, from the interior of Africa; net hammock, from the in¬ 
terior of Africa. Presented by H. Bright , Esq. 
Cases 14, 15. Objects from 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. Woodfall. 
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; 
all these were brought to England by Captain Sir Edward Parry , R.N. 
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 bone in¬ 
strument used in seal fishing, from Igloolik; seal 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¬ 
teoric iron; stick to aid in throwing darts, from Point Barrow; knife; 
part of a bone spear, from Igloolik ; part of a bird dart, made of bone 
and whalebone, from Savage Island; an Esquimaux landing net, 
formed of bone and whalebone, from Kotzebue Sound; sail made 
from the intestines of the whale, from Nootka Sound. Over this case 
are a sledge, from Baffin’s Bay, brought to England by Sir E. Parry, 
R. N, and a canoe from Behring’s Straits. 
Cases 16, 17. Shelf 1. Objects chiefly from the north-west coast of 
America: — patoo patoos, tomahawk, 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. Presented by Sir Joseph Banks , Captain James 
Cook , R.N. , Archibald Menzies, Esq., and R. Brinsley Hinds, Esq. 
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 w r ood, ornamented with bristles; 
caps of various shapes and colours, some of basket w r ork, 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, with detaching points of bone, from Nootka and 
Oonalashka. Presented by the same. 
Cases 18, 19. Shelf 1. Specimens of sculpture, rude imitations 
of the human form, women carrying children ; masks; birds made of 
wood, hollow, and containing stones, used as rattles, from Nootka 
and Oonalashka. Shelf 2. Patapatoos ; 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 America, Oonalashka, 
and Nootka. Shelf 3. Snow shoes, models of canoes, bracelets, 
earrings, from the north-west coast of America. 
Cases 20, 21. Shelf 1. Various specimens of basket w r ork from the 
north coast of America. Shelf 2. The inner bark of a species of 
