Pitt-Rivers and his Collection
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Description: Photograph and biography of Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827-1900) with bibliography and details of his collection from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.
The Museum displays archaeological and ethnographic objects from all parts of the world. It was founded in 1884 when General Pitt Rivers, an influential figure in the development of archaeology and evolutionary anthropology, gave his collection to the University. The General's founding gift contained more than 18,000 objects but there are now over half a million. Many were donated by early anthropologists and explorers. The collection includes extensive photographic and sound archives which contain early records of great importance. The Museum continues to collect through donations, bequests, special purchases and through its staff and students, in the course of their fieldwork.
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