ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

What percentage of UK, European and global collections came from England by type of artefact?

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What percentage of UK, European and global collections came from England by type of artefact?

 

 

Class

England total number in class

England as % of UK total number in class

England as % of Europe total number in class

England as % of global total number in class

UK total number in class

Europe total number in class

Global total number in class

Agriculture

241

80.3

41.4

11.7

300

508

2,056

Animalia

557

79

47.7

11.9

705

1,167

4,647

Animal Gear

389

88.4

46.8

16.8

440

830

2,307

Bag

117

96.6

65.7

3.7

121

178

3,115

Basketry

60

84.5

33.7

0.9

71

178

6,243

Body Art

114

95

76.5

5.6

120

149

2,005

Box

2,352

94.3

74.5

26.9

2,493

3,155

8,713

Carving

5

100

9.6

2.7

5

52

181

Ceremonial

118

85.5

28.8

2.2

138

409

5,333

Children

1,483

99.3

84.8

21.9

1,492

1,747

6,766

Clothing

1,152

94.7

51.6

8.8

1,216

2,229

12,982

Commemoration

169

99.4

82

31.1

170

206

542

Cordage

36

63.1

63.1

1.9

57

121

1836

Currency

255

97.3

20.1

4.5

262

1268

5,641

Dance

37

84

50

2

44

74

1,797

Death

453

98.4

68.7

6.5

460

659

6,898

Dwelling (including Furniture)

213

89.8

89.8

5.6

237

630

3,752

Fan

35

100

67.3

5.5

35

52

631

Figure

495

92.3

17.5

2.9

536

2,828

16,892

Fire

859

84.7

51.4

24.2

1,013

1,669

3,536

Fishing

223

84.1

48.6

6.6

265

458

3,334

Food

277

73.8

27.3

3.4

375

1,011

8,116

Geology

1,044

98.1

80.2

31

1,064

1,301

3,359

Hunting

30

90.9

21.4

1.1

33

140

2,684

Insignia

343

96.8

48.5

18.4

354

706

1,860

Lighting

735

78.6

39.8

22.8

934

1,845

3,219

Lock

918

98.3

68.6

53.7

933

1,338

1,709

Marriage

35

89.7

43.75

3.7

39

80

928

Mask

3

50

50

0.3

6

6

801

Measurement

454

85

58.5

9.4

534

776

4,811

Medicine

284

96.5

65.7

10.6

294

432

2,667

Metallurgy

63

100

90

8.6

63

70

731

Model

234

90.6

32.6

6.3

258

717

3,670

Music

1,925

98.7

64.6

18.9

1,950

2,979

10,167

Narcotic

165

87.3

41

3.1

189

402

5,189

Navigation

93

86.1

39.5

5.4

108

235

1,711

Ornament & bead

1,367

91.6

23.7

3

1,491

5,758

44,133

Physical Anthropology

249

77

48.9

15.8

323

509

1,573

Picture

593

98.1

46

8.5

604

1,288

6,911

Plant

163

96.4

55.8

3.5

169

292

4,597

Pottery

4,057

97.8

66.4

21

4,147

6,109

19,238

Punishment & Torture

27

93.1

49

6

29

55

450

Religion

625

88

14.4

2.3

710

4,314

26,952

Reproduction

1,210

93.1

71.3

42.3

1,299

1,695

2,854

Scientific Apparatus

80

100

96.3

80.8

80

83

99

Specimen

1,386

90.6

61.3

11.7

1,529

2,259

11,782

Sport

49

94.2

75.3

14.6

52

65

335

Status

61

93.8

32.4

1.3

65

188

4,631

Technique

1,621

99.2

91.2

34.4

1,633

1,776

4,711

Textile

2,652

96.1

73.5

25.3

2,759

3,605

10,472

Theatre

57

98.2

32.2

8

58

177

711

Time

59

100

32.5

23.1

59

181

255

Toilet

251

91.9

48.9

8

273

513

3,118

Tool [definite]

18,433

69.3

57.1

19.4

26,988

32,276

94,764

Tool or weapon

1,522

68.8

41.3

10.3

2,209

3,681

14,769

Toy & Game

2,573

99.1

68.3

21.1

2,596

3,762

12,144

Trade

185

64.2

11.8

1.8

288

1,559

10,001

Transport

527

93.9

66.2

19.2

561

796

2,732

Vessel

1,113

91.1

46

8.9

1,221

2,418

12,465

Weapon [definite] [NB incl firearms, archery, armour

1,926

88.3

56.4

7.1

2,181

3,409

27,105

Writing

2,436

95.6

75.6

26.1

2,548

3,221

9,318

Total number of objects

40,497

79.9

54.7

13.6

50,641

73,999

296,981

 

 

Note: Normally the Pitt Rivers Museum also has classes for Barkcloth and Headhunting. However, because there are no objects in these classes in the English collections figures for these classes have not been included in any of the statistics.