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Continental breakdown of second collection
The Pitt Rivers Museum normally uses a broad continental breakdown for all its objects and this will be used for these statistics. It includes Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Oceania, and Europe.
Here is the breakdown for the second collection of all objects between continents [1]:
Africa = 2829
Americas = 1041
Asia = 3352
Australia & Oceania = 1460
Europe = 11304
It can be seen that objects from Europe again dominate the second collection.
Here are the percentages:
Africa = 13.8 per cent
Americas = 5 per cent
Asia = 16.4 per cent
Australia & Oceania = 7.1 per cent
Europe = 55.3 per cent
In other words at least one in every two objects in the second collection comes from Europe.
AP, 25.5.2010
Notes:
[1] Note that there is a small over-count of objects, because a very few objects do not have a specific provenance and are listed under more than one continent. In addition, in the second collection there is a significant minority of objects that have no known geographical provenance (840) and are therefore only reflected in the total number of objects and not in the geographical statistics.