4 MISCELLANEOUS [ETHNOGRAPHICAL 
objects from India; specimens of early Hindu sculpture and Hindu 
divinities. 
Cases 10, 11. Arms, &c., chiefly from Northern India. On the 
lower case are various figures of Guadma, from Birmah. Presented 
by Capt. Stafford. 
Cases 12, 13. Baskets from Abyssinia; Fetishes, hats, and specimens 
of native cloth from Africa. 
Cases 14, 15. A piece of cloth, 16J feet long by 7J feet wide, deco¬ 
rated with borders and various stellated patterns, produced by discharg¬ 
ing the deep colour of the indigo ; it is woven in narrow strips, each 
three inches wide. Another piece of cloth, formed of similar strips, but 
the check pattern produced in the weaving. 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 Clapperton. A Foulah 
cloak, formed of very narrow strips of cloth, a cap, and a musical in¬ 
strument, 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 Captain Duncan , 1780. Several pieces 
of cloth formed of narrow strips on a white ground ; ^ 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 sun-shade, covered w T ith 
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 musical instrument; a 
leathern 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 ar¬ 
rows 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. 
JBowdiclu Esq., and described in his Travels, p. 307, Sfc. A ham¬ 
mock, from Africa, presented by H. Bright , Esq.; and a pair of san¬ 
dals, from Ashantee, presented by Mr. Fenton. War-horn of the 
king of the Ashantees, made of a human jaw and an elephant’s 
tusk. Presented by J . Whitfield, Esq. Various vases, baskets, 
strainers, specimens of cloth, bottle of pigment for the eves, from the 
last Niger Expedition. Presented by Capt. H. Dundas Trotter , 
B.N., 1843, and the Colonial Office, 1844. 
Cases 16, 17. Esquimaux dresses, from Winter Island; a whalebone 
net, used by the Esquimaux for laying under their beds ; a wooden 
bovri; a cup and spoon made of the horns of the musk ox; a bone or¬ 
nament, from Savage Island; some Esquimaux arms; a small basket; 
a pair of eye-shades formed of bone ; a bow-string ; a culinary vessel 
and lamp, cut out of stone. Over the Cases is a sledge from Baffin’s 
Bay, wriiich, together with the rest of these articles, was brought to Eng¬ 
land by Capt. Sir Edward Parry, in 1822. Esquimaux dresses from 
Point Hope; a steersman’s cap, from West Georgia; men’s boots, and 
