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RECENT accessions to the collections of the British Museum (Bloomsbury) reported at the October meeting of the Trustees include a number of ethnographical and archaeological objects of exceptional interest. Among these is a war-drum presented by H.M. the King, which was captured from the Khalifa at Khartum in 1898 and given to Queen Victoria by Lord Kitchener. It is of the split-gong type, is made of wood, and is some seven feet long. It is shaped like an animal with a horned head at one end, and is carved with geometrical ornament in relief on the sides. A ceremonial staff from Ashanti, formerly the property of Nana Kobina Amponsah II, Ohene of Busumtwi Stool, has a gold top surmounted by a bird pecking two skulls. Sir Aurel Stein has now decided that the objects allotted to him by the Persian Government from the finds of his journeys of archaeological exploration in Iran should be sent to the British Museum, and the pottery and sherds from his third journey in 1934, on which he traversed the modern province of Fars in south-west Persia, have now been received. They date from well before 3000 B.C. and are of importance as showing affinities with such early sites as Susa and El Obeid in Irak.
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British Museum (Bloomsbury): Recent Acquisitions. Nature 140, 801–802 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140801d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/140801d0