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?

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.

ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

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