Barbara Whitchurch Freire-Marreco

Career Anthropologist / Museum Professional

Biography One of the first Diploma student at Pitt Rivers Museum, she also volunteered in the museum. She carried out fieldwork in the southern United States [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 12/02/2007]

Biography References ISCA Diploma Register / Claire Warrior, National Maritime Museum / http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0016-7398%28196603%29132%3A1%3C172%3AORA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K

Clubs & Societies British Association for the Advancement of Science / Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations] / Folklore Society / Oxford University Anthropological Society

County London [Greater] / Suffolk

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic PhotographsEthnography

Collected around 1911

Dates active 1879-1967

Donated around 1911 / 1954

English collections Leaden pilgrim-bottle, specimen illustrating loop-weaving through a bobbin, rabbit bone, resembling an animal's head, mounted as a pin. Photographs of a young man and of a man and a woman. Taken in London in 1924 when they were appearing in the "Covered Wagon" film.

Oxford Uni College ?Somerville

Oxford Uni Education Yes

Oxford Uni date 1907-

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford 1905-

Portrait link Museum

English collection size 5

Connections Henry Balfour / Mrs] Gebby / [Mrs] M. Forbes / G. Farrow / [Mrs] probably Jessie Margoliouth / Lilian Onslow / Charles Owen