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 1\ 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 ; a 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 with 
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 . 
Bowdich, 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 eyes, from the 
last Niger Expedition. Presented by Capt. H. Dundas Trotter, 
JR.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 
bowl; 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, which, together with the rest of these articles, was brought to Eno-_ 
land by Capt. Sir Edward Parry, in 1822. Esquimaux dresses from 
Point Hope; a steersman’s cap, from West Georgia; men’s boots, and 
