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Cases 16, 17. Shelf 1. Objects chiefly from the north-west coast 
of America: —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; qui¬ 
vers, with arrows tipped with bone, and harpoons from Nootka Sound 
and Oonalashka. Presented by Sir Joseph Banks , Captain James 
Cook , R.N., Archibald Menzies , Bsq ., 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 wood, ornamented with bristles; 
caps of various shapes and colours, some of basket w r ork, w 7 ith 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 
w T ood, hollow, 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 America, Oonalashka, and 
Nootka. Shelf 3. Snow shoes, models of canoes, bracelets, earrings, 
from the north-w r est coast of America. 
Cases 20, 21. Shelf 1. Various specimens of basket work from the 
north coast of America. 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. 
Case 22. Shelf 1. Seal skin dress, dog harness for a sledge, and 
throwing stick, from Labrador. Shelf 2. Child’s cradle, scalps; ca¬ 
lumets, or pipes; beads and necklace ; model of a cradle, showing the 
manner in which the Flathead Indians of the Columbia River compress 
their children’s skulls. Presented by R. Brinsley Hinds , Esq., R.JY. 
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. Farish . Baskets of the same ; 
pipe, roll of tobacco, and vase, from Canada. Wampum 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. Shelf 1. Bows made of sinew and w 7 ood, and 
arrows tipped with obsidian, from Port Trinidad and California. 
Shelf 2. Objects from Mexico:—various terracotta figures of divi¬ 
nities, wizards, &c., from the tombs of Anahuac; and other terra¬ 
cotta figures, collected by Mr. Bullock; and two statues and five 
fragments of terracotta, found on the mountains of Tezeossingo, the pyra¬ 
mids of St. Juan de Toetiutican ; a small terracotta sitting figure, 
similar to an Egyptian sphinx ; an adze; a heart-shaped amulet of 
serpentine, with engraved characters resembling hieroglyphics; small 
