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stone tubes and pipes, a small arrow-head, 24 small turquoise pendants (flat, pierced) and a number of fragments of ^[[turquoise]] pendants, bone perforators, fragments of a bone spear-head, a bear's claw, shell beads and ornaments, a perforated sea-shell, a small brass bell (European), a nugget of native copper, a piece of graphite, and pieces of red and green mineral paint, 165 specimens. I consider the turquoise ornaments the most valuable part of the collection.

^[[16107.]][[underline]]L. H. Aymé, Oxaca, Mexico.-[[/underline]]Collection from Oxaca: Obsidian flakes and cores, a hammer-stone, polished celts, one 11 inch in length, polishing-stones, water-worn pebbles, stones with grooves resembling Polynesian bark-beaters, but used in Mexico as chilli-crushers, small stone pendants, a stone slab with notches on one edge, fragment of a pestle, two large stone carvings representing human figures (one very good), part of a stone carving in the shape of a human head with widely-opened mouth, tiger's head of stone (part of a figure), small squatting figures (human), pierced for suspension, a well-polished disc of jadeite (pendant), fragments of worked alabaster, a piece of stucco, beads made of entire shells, either pierced with a hole or truncated at the apex, a large pierced shell (Strombus), a shell bead, a shell disc with central hole, fragments of shells, and a large number of calcareous pebbles (use unknown); 212 specimens.

The above-mentioned shells have been identified by Mr.