ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN
Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum
Ettlinger's donations to the Pitt Rivers Museum
Alison Petch,
Researcher 'The Other Within' project
1951.11.11.1 Chile, Cautin Province, Mapuche. Man's belt. Donated by Ellen Ettlinger
1963.4.1 Aran Islands belt donated by Ellen Ettlinger
1965.5.1.241 Beating the bounds, Oxford. Ellen Ettlinger's card.
Cover of one of the pamphlets in Ettlinger's collection in the Balfour Library.
Object collections:
Ellen Ettlinger did not donate any English artefacts to the Pitt Rivers Museum, she did donate five things, four from Chile and one from the Aran Islands :
1951.11.11 .1 November 1951 Donation CHILE, CAUTÍN PROVINCE, MAPUCHE INDIANS: Man’s woollen belt in double-cloth weave with geometrical and human figures in white and green-black; fringed ends.
1951.11.11 .2-4 CHILE 3 toys made of [insert] dyed [end insert] horsehair a) bunch of flowers blue and red b) 2 hats [insert] joined together [end insert] red white blue, c) string of 6 discs and fan, orange, pale green and black.
1963.4.1 IRELAND, ARAN ISLANDS: Waist band, worn by men (CRISS). This specimen was woven on the Aran Isles in 1946. Red & white, green, yellow wool with navy wool edges. Both belt ends terminate in four thick plaits with knot & tassel. See the account of Ettlinger's work on the Aran Islands.
Photographic collections:
Mrs Ettlinger gave a number of times to the photographic collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum according to the relevant Annual Reports for the Museum:
1964-5
She gave a photographic collection. This is now accessioned as 1965.5.1.1-600 It was described as '600 images in five boxes, relating mainly to arts, crafts and folk practices in Great Britain, but also including transport, farm life and architecture' [from accession book entry]. It is obviously her own working file of interesting images taken from magazines, her own photographs and photographs of friends, mounted on index cards and kept in boxes. As many of these deal with church architecture it may well be that it was used during her research into Monuments of Folklore in Oxfordshire (which examines church architecture in the main). However, it does include other topics as well. It is not clear why Ettlinger gave away her working material at this date, some thirty years before her death and whilst she was still active in examining folklore. 258 of these cards relate to English material (just under half).
More about this donation.
1971-2
A photographic archive of amulets, and architectural details from church buildings
This collection has not yet been identified.
1994-5
The Estate of Ellen Ettlinger, donated 'manuscript and photographic material' to the collection.
This collection has not yet been identified but is probably that listed here.
2008
Found unentered, donated at an unknown date as part of the pamphlet series to the Balfour Library but transferred to the photographic collections in 2008.
1998.464.1-17 Photographs of Tissington Well-dressing, taken by Ingegärd Vallin and sent to Ellen Ettlinger.
Books and pamphlets to the Balfour Library
Pamphlets were not identified separately in the Annual Reports but donated in 1977-8, 1987-9, 1979-80, 1980-1, 1981-2, 1982-3, 1983-4, 1984-5, 1985-6, 1986-7, 1987-8, 1994-5. Find out more here.