ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

What type of objects are in the Oxfordshire County Museums Service's social history collections from Oxfordshire?

Alison Petch,
Researcher 'The Other Within' project

NB A single artefact may well be categorised as more than type of object eg a fishing spear would be categorised as both 'Fishing' and 'Weapon'. Photographs from the OXCMS photographic collections are included in these statistics.

Note that the archaeological collections from Oxfordshire are omitted.

 

Type of object

Number of objects

Agriculture

723

Animalia

185

Animal Gear

960

Archery Weapon

4

Armour Weapon

7

Bag

335

Barkcloth

0

Basketry

131

Bead

13

Body Art

2

Box

995

Carving

30

Ceremonial

16

Children

967

Clothing

4,202

Commemoration

0

Cordage

35

Currency

792

Dance

14

Death

48

Divination Religion

0

Dwelling

1,277

Fan

27

Figure

125

Fire

374

Firearm Weapon

109

Fishing

22

Food

2,326

Food-gathering

1

Furniture Dwelling

728

Geology

57

Headhunting

0

Hunting

74

Insignia

1,487

Lighting

438

Lock

145

Marriage

66

Mask

3

Measurement

550

Medicine

103

Metallurgy

162

Model

113

Music

294

Narcotic

490

Navigation

79

Ornament

428

Photograph

9,346

Physical Anthropology

3

Picture

1,760

Plant

17

 

 

Pottery

744

Punishment and Torture

42

Religion

66

Reproduction

436

Scientific Apparatus

140

Specimen

255

Sport

40

Status

196

Technique

0

Textile

3,304

Theatre

12

Time

142

Toilet

365

Tool

9,038

Toy & Game

1,742

Trade

251

Transport

343

Vessel

3,826

Weapon

297

Writing

6,280

Unknown

262