ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

How many individuals are associated with particular kinds of collections?

 

Archaeology - 282

Ethnography - 1,182

Other - 62

Photographs * - 16

Postcards * - 1

Sound archives * - 14

[Note: all these categories are not mutually exclusive]

* Note that these categories are artificially deflated as none of the individuals only recorded in the photographs database or sound database are yet included

Type of collection

Number

%

Archaeology

282

19.3

Ethnography

1,182

81.2

Other

62

4.2

Photographs

16

1

Postcards

1

-

Sound archives

14

0.9

Set this against balance of collections which are roughly 58 per cent archaeological and 36 per cent ethnographic, we suspect that it means a small number of collectors collected a very large number of archaeological objects whilst a larger number of collectors / donors are associated with a smaller number of ethnographic objects ie archaeological collectors tend to give bigger collections than ethnographic ones.