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Diamond Jenness

Career Anthropologist / Museum Professional / Archaeologist

Biography Diploma student at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Undertook fieldwork in Melanesia and North America, later worked at National Museum of Canada [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 01/02/2007]

Biography References http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/information/biography/fghij/jenness_diamond.html / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Jenness

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

County Dorset

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Archaeology

Collected around 1911

Dates active 1886-1969

Donated around 1911

English collections Stone tools

Oxford Uni College Balliol College

Oxford Uni Education Yes

Oxford Uni date 1908-1912

Oxford based No

Date in Oxford 1908-1912

Portrait link http://www.civilization.ca/archeo/hnpc/npprefae.html

English collection size 6

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