10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PITT-RIVERS MUSEUM»
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Knowing Things: Exploring the Collections at the
Pitt Rivers ...
This book explores the early history of the Pitt Rivers Museum and its collections.
Chris Gosden, Frances Larson, Alison Petch, 2007
2
Catalogue of Palaeolithic artefacts from Egypt in the
Pitt ...
The first half of the book sets the background, examining the origins of Egyptian Palaeolithic archaeology, supported by extracts from diaries and contemporary publications, as well as discussing the types of stone artefacts collected, the ...
3
Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer
(Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Bin Kabina and bin Ghabaisha in
Oman, 1950. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Muhammad al Auf,
Thesiger's Rashid Guide, in 1947. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford)
Thesiger ...
4
Museum Economics and the Community
Pitt Rivers, Letter to A.W. Franks, 27 Jun 1880, Pitt Rivers Museum, Balfour
Papers. 38. 'Report of the Committee appointed by the Lords of the Committee of
Council on Education on the offer made by General Pitt Rivers with regard to his
...
5
Pitt Rivers: The Life and Archaeological Work of ...
Privately printed. Chapman, W. R., 1984. 'Pitt Rivers and his collection, 1 874-1
883: the chronicle of a gift horse'. In Cranstone, B. A. L. and Seidenberg, S. The
General's Gift: A Celebration of the Pitt Rivers Museum Centenary, 1884-1984.
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National Approaches to the Governance of Historical Heritage ...
The Pitt Rivers Museum has expanded greatly since its foundation, and has
become a very important teaching and research institution, as well being as a
tourist attraction.33 It reminds us, incidentally, of the educational dimension of the
...
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Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection ...
... of the Pitt Rivers Museum.16 After assuming in 1 880 the inheritance of the
Rushmore estates on the borders of Wiltshire and Dorset (and also the surname
by which he is known to posterity),17 the General initiated a second collection
which ...
Arthur MacGregor, Ashmolean Museum, 1987
8
The Arctic in the British Imagination 1818-1914
36 Pitt Rivers articulated his ideas in an address delivered to the Anthropological
Institute, quoted in B. Blackwood, The Origin and Development of the Pitt Rivers
Museum, revised edition, Oxford, Pitt Rivers Museum, 1991, p. 2. Pitt Rivers's ...
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The Shipley collection of scientific papers
DESCRIPTION f)F ILLUSTRATIONS. Fig. i. Mataa, obsidian blade of typical
specialized form, with tang, Easter Island. Pitt Rivers Museum. Length, 11.3 cm.
Fig. 2. Monolithic statue. Easter Island. The dotted line 3t A indicates the height ...
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Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body ...
Ten photographs of the measurements of three Khoisan men: //Kabathin, /
Hankum, Yanssho, 1870-71 photographed at Breakwater Jail photograph,
albumen print; 23.3 x 28.9 PRMBn/2a-j Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
150 (pp.
Martin Kemp, Marina Wallace, 2000
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