MISCELLANEOUS 
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fabric, purchased at Egga by the Niger Expedition ; a piece of cloth, 
16| feet long by 7^ feet wide, decorated with borders, and various 
stellated patterns, produced by discharging the deep colour of the indigo; 
woven in strips 3 inches wide : another similar, but check pattern, pro¬ 
duced in the woof; a piece of very narrow width; all from the interior 
of Africa. Presented by Captain Ciapperton and Major Denham. 
With these are a plain tob , or cloak, from the Niger Expedition, pre¬ 
sented by the Colonial Office; and another Foulah cloak, formed of 
various strips of cloth, from the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone, pre¬ 
sented by J. Whitfield , Esq. Shelf 2. Fly-flap, or brush; female hair 
net; bag ; cushion, covered with scarlet cloth ; arrows, and quiver of 
the same with iron points; hoe made of British bar iron; Housa dagger; 
cord; specimens of prepared leather ; spindles, some with their cotton 
thread, shuttles, hanks of thread, white or blue, dyed with indigo ; samia 
aduga, or specimens of native silk, of yellow, green, and crimson ; a 
quantity of raw native cotton, and cocoons of native raw silk, very coarse, 
with the chrysalides of the silkworm still in it; small skin bottle, for 
holding galena for colouring the eyelids, and small specimen of this 
mineral; all collected during the Niger Expedition, and presented 
by the Colonial Office and Captain H. JDundas Trotter , R.N. 
Bronze manilla , or African ring money; mat hat from the interior. 
Presented by Captain Duncan. Shelf 3. Hat, bow, quiver, and 
sword of a Bambara Chief, obtained in French Guiana, and presented 
by H. C. Rothery , Esq. Bow, spears, and fetish, from Fernando Po. 
Presented by the Rev. Theod. Muller. Hats, from the interior of 
Africa. Presented by Captain Fishbourne. Swords and quivers, from 
the interior of Africa; net hammock, from the interior of Africa. 
Presented by H. Bright , Esq. Dress, spears, and shield, from 
Abyssinia. Presented by Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq . 
Cases 14, 15. Objects from North America:—Esquimaux dresses 
from Winter Island, and from Point Hope; a steersman’s cap from 
W~est 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; brought to England by Captain Sir Edward Parry , R.JY, 
A dart thrower, from Point Barrow; two large teeth of the walrus, from 
Behring’s Straits ; small harpoon, tipped w T ith 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 w r halebone, 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. 
