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Kenneth Page Oakley

Career Anthropologist / Natural Historian / Archaeologist

Biography Worked as an anthropologist and palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum, London [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 19/02/2007]

Biography References http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31509 / Who was Who 2007 / Anne Haour / http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/information/biography/klmno/oakley_kenneth.html / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Oakley

Clubs & Societies Geological Society / Geological Association / British Association for the Advancement of Science / Society of Antiquaries / British Academy / Explorers Club / ?Oxford University Anthropological Society [speaker] / Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations]

County Too many counties to list

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography Archaeology

Collected around 1982

Dates active 1911-1981

Donated around 1982

English collections Stone tools and arrowheads, ornaments made of fossils

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

Portrait link http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31509

English collection size 60

Connections H. Dixon Hewitt / E.J. probably Elsie J. Begg / Katherine Ovey / R.J. Parsons / L.K.M. Cocks / Henry George Dines / Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey / F.A. Lea

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