There are a total of 7 items classified as ethnographic from Yorkshire in the founding collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum. They are listed below, the descriptions are taken from the accession registers
1. 1884.24.1 - 270 - Swords etc Dagger, straight two-edged pointed blade, ivory handle and ball pommel half-covered, with copper brass cross guard with acorn tips on quillons. Found in York streets (excavating). Quillons: one of the branches of the cross-guard of a sword [1884.24.217] Note: this is also classified as possibly archaeological as it has not been dated.
2. Accession Book IV entry - 1884.56.1 - 100 Charms Magic etc. - Witchpost, carved with heart and other designs Nr Scarborough Yorks
Blue book entry - 'Idols and objects connected with religion 296 Post belonging to a seat on a hearth of an old house in Scarborough. Carved with representations of a cross heart stuck with pins and different ?phases of the moon for the purpose of keeping off fairies'
Additional Blue book entry - 'witches'
Delivery Catalogue I entry - 'Part of a seat found at Scarboro Not in case 118'
[Geographical] Card Catalogue Entry - exactly as blue book entry except adds 'Height 4'11"'
Detailed Amulet card catalogue entry - 'Amulets ... F. Spirit Houses, Scares etc. F2. Prophylactic ... Witches. Description: '"Witch post" - a stout squared post of solid oak, much blackened, with tenon at top, carved at the top in front with crossed lines & hearts, etc:, and below this 6 thick raised transverse bars, the lowest one ornamented. This was labelled "part of an old seat", but is undoubtedly a post erected in the house to scare [insert, in pencil] keep [end insert] away witches. Compare example sent by Canon Atkinson. Locality: From an old house, Scarboro' York. How Acquired: P.R. coll Del cat 118. References: Atkinson * "40 years in a moorland parish" and letters from him * (not mentioned here).' [Drawing on reverse]
Old Pitt Rivers Museum display label [now in Related Documents File] - 'YORKSHIRE, SCARBOROUGH. "Witch post", which once formed part of a seat on the hearth of an old house. Carved with representations of a cross, heart stuck with pins, and ?different phases of the moon. For keeping off fairies or witches. P.R. coll. 296 (Blue); IV. 124.' [1884.56.80]
3. 1884.101.1 - 100 Smoking pipes - Bowl of tobacco pipe with flat heels and roughly moulded bowls, grey XVII cent Grimston Moor Yorks [Drawing]
Detailed Pipes [Unsorted] Card Catalogue entry - Description: Ancient clay tobacco pipes (XVII cent) (mounted on wood slab) 3 small bowls, the stems broken away and missing. The middle one is the largest and most bulbous in shape, the other two are more elongated Each bowl has a flat projection at its base. The rims of the two elongated bowls are somewhat constricted. Bowl lengths [insert] rim to projection 'heel' [end insert] left bowl c 3.1 cm middle bowl c 3.2 cm right bowl c 3.2 cm outer width of rim left bowl c 1.4 cm middle bowl c 1.8 cm right bowl c 1.5 cm People: English XVII centy Locality: Grimston Moor, Yorkshire How Acquired: PR coll 3103 [Drawing][1884.101.49]
4. Accession Book V entry - 1884.101.1 - 100 Smoking pipes - Bowl of tobacco pipe with flat heels and roughly moulded bowls XVII cent Grimston Moor Yorks [Drawing]
Detailed Pipes [Unsorted] Card Catalogue entry - Description: Ancient clay tobacco pipes (XVII cent) (mounted on wood slab) 3 small bowls, the stems broken away and missing. The middle one is the largest and most bulbous in shape, the other two are more elongated Each bowl has a flat projection at its base. The rims of the two elongated bowls are somewhat constricted. Bowl lengths [insert] rim to projection 'heel' [end insert] left bowl c 3.1 cm middle bowl c 3.2 cm right bowl c 3.2 cm outer width of rim left bowl c 1.4 cm middle bowl c 1.8 cm right bowl c 1.5 cm People: English XVII centy Locality: Grimston Moor, Yorkshire How Acquired: PR coll 3103 [Drawing][1884.101.50]
5. 1884.101.1 - 100 Smoking pipes - Bowl of tobacco pipe with flat heels and roughly moulded bowls XVII cent Grimston Moor Yorks [Drawing]
Detailed Pipes [Unsorted] Card Catalogue entry - Description: Ancient clay tobacco pipes (XVII cent) (mounted on wood slab) 3 small bowls, the stems broken away and missing. The middle one is the largest and most bulbous in shape, the other two are more elongated Each bowl has a flat projection at its base. The rims of the two elongated bowls are somewhat constricted. Bowl lengths [insert] rim to projection 'heel' [end insert] left bowl c 3.1 cm middle bowl c 3.2 cm right bowl c 3.2 cm outer width of rim left bowl c 1.4 cm middle bowl c 1.8 cm right bowl c 1.5 cm People: English XVII centy Locality: Grimston Moor, Yorkshire How Acquired: PR coll 3103 [Drawing][1884.101.51]
6. PR 836 Yorkshire Sleights near Whitby Forgery by Flint Jack (Edward Simpson) of English Lower Palaeolithic (Acheulian) type implement. Sent on long loan to Newbury Borough Museum in exchange 1957 [1884.122.598]
7. Votive rags from St Helens Well, Kirkby Overblow, North Yorkshire. Found unentered during the DCF 4 - 5 Court Project.
Detailed Amulet card catalogue entry - Amulets D. Crop Fertility, E. Offerings to Gods etc F. Spirit Houses, Scares G. Sacred and Mem. food H. Relics and Mementos - Models of human body E3 Ex voto rags, pins etc Description: Votive rags from bushes at a holy well hung there by the country people who believe the water is good for eye diseases [insert] if [end insert] combined with an offering of this type to St Helen. They are often left by Roman Catholics being near Clifford where they are numerous Locality: St Helen's Well Thorp Church Yorks Collected by: Mrs Marianne Cooke 1869 How Acquired: PR coll 159 dd Mrs M. Cooke 1869 [sic]
Written on object box - Votive rags from St Helen's Well, Thorp Arch, Yorkshire.[1884.140.331]