IV 
AN ACCOUNT OF THE ARTEFACTS 
COLLECTED IN PATAGONIA AND FUEGIA 
By HENRY BALFOUR 
T HE ethnographical and archaeological collections made 
by Sir Baldwin Spencer during the course of his expedi¬ 
tion to South America—the proceeds of his latest, and, to 
universal regret, last activities as a field-researcher—must be 
divided into two primary series. Firstly, there is a series of 
objects collected by him and by Miss Jean Hamilton during 
the voyage down the coast of Patagonia, chiefly at Deseado, 
San Julian, and Santa Cruz. These specimens were largely 
procured from local collectors. Secondly, there is a number 
of objects obtained on the island of Navarin, lying im¬ 
mediately to the south of Tierra del Fuego, from which it is 
separated by the Beagle Channel, and to the north of the 
islands of the Cape Horn group. The greater part of these 
two collections has gone to Australia, to the Melbourne 
Museum, but I was very kindly allowed to retain a number 
of specimens for the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford, in 
which Spencer was always keenly interested and in the early 
installation stages of which he had played a considerable part. 
These specimens, together with notes hurriedly made upon 
the main collection before it was shipped to Australia, 
have supplied me with material for a brief account of the 
‘finds’. 
The illustrations on Figs. 8—12 were for the most part 
drawn by me from actual specimens remaining in my hands, 
a few being re-drawn from sketches made while I was 
examining the whole collection in London with the help of 
Miss Hamilton, to whom I am very grateful . The figures 
are all reduced to a scale of one-half linear of the actual size 
