ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

What proportion English collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum obtained in the 1880s came with the founding collection

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What proportion English collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum obtained in the 1880s came with the founding collection?

Class

English objects in the Pitt Rivers collections

Total number of English objects accessioned in 1880s

% of 1880s English objects donated by Pitt Rivers founding collection

Agriculture

2

3

66

Animalia

139

140

99.2

Animal Gear

82

86

95.3

Bag

1

2

50

Basketry

0

0

-

Body Art

0

0

-

Box

26

36

72.2

Carving

3

3

100

Ceremonial

5

9

55.5

Children

1

1

100

Clothing

33

132

25

Commemoration

2

2

100

Cordage

5

13

38.4

Currency

13

16

81.2

Dance

0

0

-

Death

119

195

61

Dwelling (including Furniture)

68

68

100

Fan

1

1

100

Figure

37

39

94.8

Fire

33

33

100

Fishing

11

17

64.7

Food

58

58

100

Geology

70

72

97.2

Hunting

0

1

0

Insignia

4

5

80

Lighting

11

22

50

Lock

16

16

100

Marriage

0

2

0

Mask

0

0

-

Measurement

7

8

87.5

Medicine

0

0

-

Metallurgy

12

13

92.3

Model

25

42

59.5

Music

10

18

55.5

Narcotic

17

20

85

Navigation

11

38

28.9

Ornament & bead

51

59

86.4

Physical Anthropology

225

225

100 *

Picture

36

36

100 *

Plant

78

86

90.6

Pottery

3,326

3,540

93.9

Punishment & Torture

4

6

66

Religion

25

99

25.2

Reproduction

25

25

100 *

Scientific Apparatus

0

0

-

Specimen

172

193

89.1

Sport

0

0

-

Status

3

9

33

Technique

12

12

100 *

Textile

93

98

94.8

Theatre

0

0

-

Time

0

0

-

Toilet

19

28

67.8

Tool [definite]

1,713

1,736

98.6

Tool or weapon

366

390

93.8

Toy & Game

33

33

100

Trade

13

13

100 *

Transport

5

15

33

Vessel

495

675

73.3

Weapon [definite]

159

267

59.5

Writing

32

39

82

 

* NB the 1880s figures have had to be adjusted as obviously a small number of objects that were part of the founding collection have been assigned non 1880s accession numbers and this has distorted their totals.