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ETHNOGRAPHICAL ROOM. 
The Visitor to the Museum having passed the Entrance in Great 
Russell Street, is at present conducted, by a temporary Staircase, to a 
Landing, from which he can either descend to the Gallery of Anti¬ 
quities hereafter described, or in the more regular course of his Circuit, 
ascend to the 
Ethnographical Room. 
At the right hand side of the door, entering the Room, is a gilt 
image of Guadma, a Burmese idol, and the symbolical representation 
of his foot. Presented by Captain Marryat , R. JV. 
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 ornamented with 
figures of Buddh, cast in salient relief, and covered with an inscrip¬ 
tion, also in relief, separated by four broad bands, of large characters, 
eight lines of poetry relative to the Buddhist religion, out of one of the 
religious books of this sect. The smaller inscriptions in 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, and 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 pre¬ 
sent emperor, the 36th cyclary year, on a morning of the eighth moon 
(a.d. 1839-40). Presentedby HER MAJESTY, 1844. 
Immediately beyond the Bell, stands, within a Case, a Model of a 
moveable Temple, called in the Carnatic, Therup, or Rhudum. Pre¬ 
sented by Charles Marsh , Esq., 1793. 
Cases 1, 2 . Various Chinese and Japanese figures, chiefly divinities. 
Chinese rustic’s hat, soldier’s hat; matchlock bow and arrows; gun 
label; sight for a common pipe ; shoes from Japan; mirrors, screens, 
weights, money-changer’s board, measures, and other objects, from 
China and Japan. Many of these presented by J. Reeves , Esq. 
Case 3. Figure in agalmatolite of the goddess Kwan-yin. Pre¬ 
sented by G. Tradescant Lay, Esq. Two gilt figures, taken during 
the war from a private chapel behind How-kwa’s hong. Presented 
by Capt. Sir E. Belcher , R. N. 
Cases 4, 5. Various musical instruments from China. Presented 
by G. Tradescant Lay , Esq.; and an Imperial tablet in honour of a 
lady, from the Temple of Confucius, at Choosan. Presented by W. 
B. Farror, Esq., R. N. 
Cases 6, 7. Various divinities of the Hindu Pantheon, in wood, 
composition, and bronze ; ancient copper-plates, containing grants of 
land ; and an inlaid box from the Pelew islands. 
Cases 8, 9. Models of various Hindu casts; measures, vessels, and 
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