THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS. 
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tribe, and by its manufactures whether for household purposes, agri¬ 
culture, the chase, defence, ornament, amusement or religious worship. 
From 1866 onwards presentations of ethnological speci¬ 
mens continued to be added to the collections and were ac¬ 
knowledged in the Annual Reports of the Museum. These 
included several objects from the Andamans, such as a 
dancing-board, food-dishes, a landing-net and fish-basket, 
bottles and flints ; also Naga spears and bows ; a Bhutia 
trumpet and leaf sandals; famine-foods; a model of a Ceylon 
canoe; Garo cloths ; ornaments and arms from Chittagong, 
Cox’s Bazar, Nagpur, Burdwan, North Arrakan and the 
Midnapore Sonthals. 
In 1875 a large collection of musical instruments was 
presented by Rajah Jotendra Mohun Tagore, Babu Sourindro 
Mohun Tagore and Mahrani Sarnomoyia. Many of these had 
been sent to the London Exhibition of 1874, and were ulti¬ 
mately presented to the Indian Museum in commemoration of 
the visit paid to Calcutta by His Royal Highness the Prince 
of Wales (Edward VII). 
During this year the ethnological specimens were for¬ 
mally transferred to the Museum from the Asiatic Society, 
but the cases and fittings were not ready for them until some 
years later. In 1878-79 the Annual Report states :— 
The last of the original grant is now being laid out on the Ethno¬ 
logy G-allery, but the sum falls so far short of what is wanted that tho 
cases under construction will not admit of the cases being arranged and 
the Gallery opened to the public. 
In 1880-81 the Superintendent reported:— 
A few cases were supplied to the Ethnological Gallery three years 
ago, but as they were quite insufficient for the purposes for which the 
Gallery had been set apart, no attempt has been made to arrange the 
existing collections which have been simply stored in these cases. 
Next year (1881-82) the Trustees were supplied with 
Rs. 50,000 for new fittings. With this sum the large gallery 
intended for the ethnological collections was fitted up 
with cases and was ready to receive the objects for the 
exhibition of which it had so long been reserved. But a 
further delay prevented the arrangement of the ethnological 
collections. On the completion of the fittings the Industrial 
