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 338 Minutes of Meeting.

8. '' Trade " amulets of glass, inscribed with Arabic

characters.

9. Cornelian arrow-points, worn as charms by the Arabs.

10. " Trade " charms of glass, made to resemble the apex

of a cone shell, the whorl of which is regarded as representing the rotary motion of the sun. This series is of various coloured glass, with variations in celluloid-

11. "Trade" charms of glass, made to resemble cornelian

in various forms and patterns, copied from very old Arab types.

12. "Trade" charms of glass made to resemble large arrowheads. This series comprises copies in white glass (chalcedony), brown (cornelian), and others in blue, red, yellow, &c. Lines across the base repre- sent the lashing to the shaft, whilst the flaking is indicated by a row of notches on the cutting edge. More elaborate forms show coloured designs with svmbols of the Crescent, and others of the Cross. Others again have views and other pictures upon them.

13. Another series of the above in celluloid, but without

designs or decoration of any sort, evidently a de- graded type.

14. "Trade" charms of "tigers' teeth," (so called), well

modelled;^ also others in coloured glass, unnatural.

15. "Trade" charm of tigers' teeth in form of crescent,

attached to a necklet of cowrie shells, all of glass.

16. Tigers' claw\s of glass, good copies; others of the

same form in various coloured glass.

17. Small tish, made of glass, for Burmah and India.

18. Laree " shell " discs of dense white olass for trade in the Pacilic,

ig. Large bead of imitation amber, for trade with the West Coast of Africa.

' Fig. 14/^ represents a wild cat's tooth.