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.