Canziani and the Pitt Rivers Museum

Chris Wingfield
Researcher 'The Other Within' project

In her book Canziani suggests that following her election to the Folklore Society (FLS) Council, at the same time that Henry Balfour, Curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum was elected president:

I plucked up courage, and took hours of his valuable time, while he showed me the Pitt Rivers, for I had not seen that sort of museum before. How time flies! It is only a few months since I went to Professor and Mrs. Balfour's golden wedding party in their beatiful garden at Headington.

The chronology this suggests is slightly problemmatic, since museum records suggest that Canziani was writing to Balfour at the Pitt Rivers by May 1914, eight years before she was elected to the FLS council. At that time she sent him one of her sketch book and asked him to put an X next to the items he wanted so that she could ask her father to try to get them. In the letter Canziani also mentions the objects she had sent to Cambridge and it seems that she was supplying objects to a number of other museums.

 

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