ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

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Somerset

Somerset

Peaks in Somerset Collections

 

1900s (75), 1920s (13), 1940s (130), 1960s (385)

 

Arch: 1900s (63) Harley, 1920s (137) FH Carr & Lawrence


Ethno: 1940s (120) Blackwood Lace Pillow, 1960s (385) Wheelwright workshop

 

 

Significant Major Donations

 

Year

Objects

Donor

Classes

Objects

1961

Wheelright’s tools

Mrs Griffin

Transport / Technique / Writing

370

1943

Lace Pillow

Beatrice Blackwood

Textile

117

1893, 1899, 1911, 1917

Dowsing rods, objects stuck with pins, objects from the Fox family, tally sticks, witches’s ladder, healing sapling,

Tylors

Religion, Tally, Measurement

24

1968

Amulets

Somerset Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. / Elworthy

Religion

10


 

 

 

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Understanding peaks in collections for Essex

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Understanding peaks in collections for Somerset

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Major Donors for Essex

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Major Donors for Oxfordshire


Major Donors for Somerset


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