How many individuals are associated with particular kinds of collections?
Archaeology - 282
Ethnography - 1,182
Other - 62
Photographs * - 16
Postcards * - 1
Sound archives * - 14
[Note: all these categories are not mutually exclusive]
* Note that these categories are artificially deflated as none of the individuals only recorded in the photographs database or sound database are yet included
|
Type of collection |
Number |
% |
|
Archaeology |
282 |
19.3 |
|
Ethnography |
1,182 |
81.2 |
|
Other |
62 |
4.2 |
|
Photographs |
16 |
1 |
|
Postcards |
1 |
- |
|
Sound archives |
14 |
0.9 |
Set this against balance of collections which are roughly 58 per cent archaeological and 36 per cent ethnographic, we suspect that it means a small number of collectors collected a very large number of archaeological objects whilst a larger number of collectors / donors are associated with a smaller number of ethnographic objects ie archaeological collectors tend to give bigger collections than ethnographic ones.