Walter William Skeat

Career Colonial Servant / Anthropologist / Academic

Biography Possibly field collector of this material, though it might have been his father of the same name [qv]. He worked for the civil service in Malaysia and carried out anthropological research in the area. Due to ill-health he returned to England and was one of the Studeley lecturers at the British Museum from 1914 until his retirement in 1932. [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 26/02/2007]

Biography References http://homepage.ntlworld.com/verran/sights/southeastasia.html / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_William_Skeat

Clubs & Societies British Academy / English Dialect Society / Folklore Society / Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations]

County Hertfordshire / Yorkshire / Hampshire and Isle of Wight / Norfolk

Relationship ?Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source / Compiler

Archaeological or Ethnographic EthnographyPhotographs

Collected around 1940 / 1943 or by 1912

Dates active 1866-1953

Donated around 1940 / 1943

English collections Pitch pipe, ceremonial cakes made in human form, sickles or reaping-hooks, miller's tally, for scoring up sacks of flour, wooden trenchers, horn drinking cups, wooden model of ducking-stool, costrils, tobacco dispensing machine, boxes of negatives

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

English collection size 118

Connections Walter William Skeat / Thomas & Joseph Hutton / Walmsley Brothers / John Valentine / J. [James] Valentine & Co. / Mr Aitken