Helene La Rue

Career Museum Professional / Musician

Biography Curator of the Music collections, Pitt Rivers Museum and Director of the Bate Collections, Department of Music, University of Oxford [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 05/02/2007]

Biography References http://www.music.ox.ac.uk/staffprofiles/larue_h.html / http://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/general/fellows/la_rue_helene

Clubs & Societies Galpin Society

County Oxfordshire

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 2002

Dates active 1951-2007

Donated around 2002

English collections Friction drum in the shape of a toy chicken which makes a clucking noise when a string is plucked, whistle sweet, toy frog containing a free reed which squeaks when the frog is pressed, English guitar tuning kit, Hot cross bun, used in drink to cure colds, yellow plastic whistle, in shape of bird

Oxford Uni Education Yes

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford ?c 1980-present

Portrait link http://www.irishharp.org/news/bate/Bate-Pages/Image5.html

English collection size 6

Connections Josephine Mary La Rue / Bernard Bowen / Bate Collection of Musical Instruments shop / St Giles Fair, Oxford / Tobar Ltd.