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Add.9455vol2_p473 /2 Shrunken human head from the Achuar, Ecuador

Add.9455vol2_p473 /2 Shrunken human head from the Achuar, Ecuador

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New Guinea bird, thanks to Tom Wroble for permission to put this image on the site

New Guinea bird, thanks to Tom Wroble for permission to put this image on the site

A similar coat shown in Carlos Mordo 'La Herencia Olvidada; Arte Indigena de la Argentina

Add.9455vol3_p1111 /2

Add.9455vol3_p1111 /2

Add.9455vol5_p1743 /1

MFA, Boston plaque formerly volume 5 page 1743

MFA, Boston pectoral formerly volume 5 page 1590

Add.9455vol5_p1590 /2

MFA, Boston head formerly volume 5 page 1637

Add.9455vol5_p1637 /2

Add.9455vol3_p1111 /2 Information

Add.9455vol3_p1111 /2

Roman intaglio engraved, in a 19th century ring. Source: Author Copyright S&SWM

Plate from Pitt-Rivers' 1883 article on boomerangs in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute

Add.9455vol1_p245 /1 RD Milns Antiquities Museum University of Queensland

Add.9455vol1_p245 /1

Sepik headrest

Add.9455vol4_p1498 from Tribal Art Auction

Add.9455vol4_p1498 /1

Portrait of the last Cranborne Chase keeper by Romney owned by Pitt-Rivers between 1880-1900

The illustration used in the newsletter article

1992,0516.1 Woman with child

Bonham's sale of Add.9455vol2_p33 /1

Add.9455vol2_p397 /4

Society of Antiquaries Drawing Early Medieval Antiqs 2

Painted wood mummy portrait of woman. Yale University Art Gallery, R.E. White Fund, 2011.102.1

Painted wood mummy portrait of a woman. British Museum 1890,0921.1 © The Trustees of the BM

Add. 9455vol2_p573/3 Pitt Rivers’ Second Collection catalogue

Add.9455vol3_p873 /4

Add.9455vol3_p873 /4

Add.9455vol3_p873 /4

Add.9455vol2_p33 /1 in 2012

Add.9455vol3_p838 /1

A.2-1982 Victoria and Albert Museum

British Museum Oc,+.1158

1978,0601.3

BM 1991,0814.2

BM 1991,0814.1

BM 1974,1201.345

BM 1974,1201.343

British Museum 1991,0126.2, Add.9455vol6_p1853 /3

Add.9455vol6_p1853 /3

Add.9455vol3_p878 /8 British Museum 1991,0131.1

Add.9455vol3_p878 /8

Image of potter figure from 'Salaminia'

BM 2009,5007.1

Volume 2 page 407 including Add.9455vol2_p407 /6

Image of Add.9455vol2_p407 /6 from Cesnola's 1881 Album

Add.9455vol3_p1035 /3 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newton_Peveril_jadeite_axe-head.jpg

Add.9455vol3_p1035 /3

Add.9455vol3_p746 /5

Add.9455vol3_p746 /5 at British Museum

Lot 71 sold by Christie's 2008

Lot 93 Christies December 2011 Marshall Ids shell necklace

Lot 93 Christies December 2011 Marshall Ids shell necklace

Lot 92 Christies December 2011 Marshall Ids shell necklace

Lot 92 Christies December 2011 Marshall Ids shell necklace

Add.9455vol3_p1049 /3

Christie's photo of Add.9455vol3_p1049 /3

The Romano-British bowl said to come from the Pitt-Rivers' second collection

Agasse: 2 horses Photo by Sothebys 2012.

Add.9455vol3_p1112 /2, as shown on Tomkins Collections website

Add.9455vol3_p1112 /2

Faversham beaker, said to have formed part of the Pitt-Rivers collection

Unmatched item from Sotheby sale of English pottery

Add.9455vol2_p400 /1 by Sotheby [view 2]

Add.9455vol2_p400 /1 by Sotheby [view 1]

Add.9455vol2_p400 /1

Add.9455vol6_p1835 /2 photo taken by Sotheby

Add.9455vol6_p1835 /2

Add.9455vol6_p1800 /1 photo by Sothebys

Add.9455vol6_p1800 /1

Sotheby's photo of Add.9455vol3_p1219/ 1

Add.9455vol3_p1219 /1

Sotheby shot of Add.9455vol3_p1219 /2 in 2006

Add.9455vol3_p1219 /2

Adze sold by Sotheby 2006, said to have been owned by Pitt-Rivers

Attributed to Lambert Sustris, supposedly owned by Pitt-Rivers after 1880

First page CUL Add.9455/10 Pitt-Rivers' Library catalogue

Add.9455vol1_p19 /13

Walton shield Add.9455vol1_p19 /13 Back

Walton shield Add.9455vol1_p19 /13 Boss

Walton shield Add.9455vol1_p19 /13 Front

Add.9455vol1_p179 /2

Add.9455vol2_p527 /2

Celtic cross models display at Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum

P142d drawing of Christian emblem, copyright S&SWM PR papers

Add.9455vol5_p1594 /1

B456 3rd letter copyright S&SWM PR papers

Add.9455vol3_p1215

B456 2nd letter Add.9455vol3_p1215 /2 copyright S&SWM PR papers

Add.9455vol3_p789

B448 Drawing of red ware vessel ?Add.9455vol3_p789 /1 copyright S&SWM PR papers

B426 Drawing of Indian gateway copyright S&SWM PR papers

B425 drawing copyright S&SWM PR papers

B425 copyright S&SWM PR papers

B.425 Drawing of inlay table copyright S&SWM PR papers

B.425 Drawing copyright S&SWM PR papers

B.425 Drawing copyright S&SWM PR papers

Add.9455vol2_p341

Add.9455vol3_p1199

B403 Copyright S&SWM PR papers

B436 Martin Brothers drawings of mugs copyright S&SWM PR papers

Add.9455vol3_p1030 /2

Add.9455vol3_p890 /1-2

B.426.36 Buddha Copyright S&SWM PR papers

Add.9455vol4_p1490

Add.9455vol8_p2157

B426.24 front page Copyright S&SWM PR papers

B426.18 Photo of Japanese bronze deer. Copyright S&SWM PR papers

Horse sculpture at Larmer Gardens in 1929

Add.9455vol3_p1224 /1

B426.3 Inscription B.426.36 Buddha Copyright S&SWM PR papers

B426.2 Copyright S&SWM PR papers

Add.9455vol3_p1185

Add.9455vol3_p1117

Add.9455vol2_p473 /2 Shrunken human head from the Achuar, Ecuador

Add.9455vol8_p2187 /2 Panpipes from Ecuador collected by St George William Lane Fox-Pitt

Add.9455vol8_p2209 /1 Gold animal figure from Peru

Add.9455vol2_p398 /2 Tehuelche leather coat once in the possession of General Juan Manuel de Rosas

L2039 copyright S&SWM PR papers

L2024 sketches of Benin heads copyright S&SWM PR papers

L1936 copyright S&SWM PR papers

L1933 copyright S&SWM PR papers

Add.9455vol2_p185 /4

During the Time of the Summoners Dollman

L1577 Sketch, copyright S&SWM PR papers

Add.9455vol4_p1281

L1490, S&SWM PR papers copyright S&SWM

Lady Ligonier portrait by Gainsborough

Lord Ligonier portrait by Gainsborough

Add.9455vol3_p1214 /2

L1418 Photograph of 'tegula' copyright S&SWM PR papers

L1401 copyright S&SWM PR papers

L1355 copyright S&SWM PR papers

L1091 Honduras objects copyright S&SWM PR papers

Add.9455vol8_p2097 /4

Blanckaert 3

Blanckaert 2

Blanckaert 1

Add.9455vol1_p24

Add.9455vol1_p25

Excursionist, 1 Sep 1880 (p5)-1 (Courtesy of Thomas Cook)

L766 copyright S&SWM PR papers

L764 copyright S&SWM PR papers

L717 copyright S&SWM PR papers

Add.9455vol3_p756 /2

Chinese vessel sold at Christie's 10 May 2011 Lot 59

Add.9455vol3_p841 sold at Christie's May 2011

Add.9455vol3_p841

Lacquer box sold Christies London May 2011

Add.9455vol3_p767 as sold at Christies May 2011

Add.9455vol3_p767

L701 copyright S&SWM PR papers Add.9455vol3_p756 /2

Mrs Walter Grove

L681 copyright S&SWM PR papers

Add.9455vol2_p452

Add.9455vol2_p451

L487 copyright S&SWM PR papers

L466 copyright S&SWM PR papers

Add.9455vol2_p313 Hong Kong items from the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886

Add.9455vol2_p520 Items obtained from Mrs Magnusson’s Icelandic Exhibition, 1889

Add.9455vol1_p163 Helmets from Vienna and Munich collected in 1882

Add.9455vol2_p392 Items from the Londesborough Collection bought at Christie’s, 1888

L281 copyright S&SWM

Add.9455vol1_p63 A page from Gordon's collection in second collection catalogue

Add.9455vol7_p2095 /2 obtained in 1897 from George Fabian Lawrence

Wrotham tyg

Bull and dog sold 1969

Add.9455vol4_p1316 Casts of mould from Pitt-Rivers second collection.

Map of Rushmore

Jubilee Room, North Lodge, Rushmore estate

North Lodge, Rushmore estate

King John's House from the Pitt-Rivers Guide

Rushmore Palm house

Rushmore

Rushmore

Rushmore

Rushmore

Rushmore

Map of Rushmore and Farnham Museum etc, from guide

Room 7, Farnham Museum, from guide

Room 6, Farnham Museum, from guide

Farnham Museum plan from the guide

King John's House from the Pitt-Rivers Guide

King John's House from the Pitt-Rivers Guide

Front cover of Volume 1, Catalogue of the Pitt-Rivers' second collection

Cover of the Guide to the Larmer Grounds etc

The cover of the catalogue of the September 1895 Exhibition at the Larmer Grounds

Add.9455vol2_p79 /2

Lot 116 Sotheby 14 April 1966

Add.9455vol2_p441 /1 & 2

Lot 111 Sotheby 14 April 1966

Add.9455vol2_p730 /1

Owl pottery vessel sold at Sotheby 14 April 1966 lot 92

Add-9455vol2_p728 /4

Add.9455vol2_p247 /3

Add.9455vol9_p2248 /4 Glass vessel

Lot 151 Sotheby's 24 May 1966 Cup and Saucer

Lot 12 Sotheby sale, 24 May 1966 Jug

Add.9455vol2_p127 /3

Rivera and pots [photo of photo taken by the author, Richard Gray]

Add_9455vol1_p270 Pitt-Rivers' second collection catalogue

Bastiani, Madonna and Child, as shown in 1956 by Sothebys

Add.9455vol2_p630 /1 Crozier sold 2010

Crozier Add.9455vol2_p630 /1

Add.9455vol2_p573 /3

Egyptian grave portrait

Glass vessels from Cyprus, Cesnola collection probably bought at auction Add.9455vol9_p2268 /5

New Guinea lime spatula

New Guinea lime spatula

Frontispiece volume 9

Frontispiece volume 8

Frontispiece volume 7

Frontispiece volume 6

Frontispiece volume 5

Frontispiece volume 4

Frontispiece volume 3

Japanese objects from Pitt-Rivers second collection

Two Japanese archaeological objects obtained from Franks

Clubs donated by Arthur Gordon Vol. 4 page 1307

Add.9455vol8_p2205

Add.9455vol4_p1340 /2

Add.9455vol3_p1177

Add.9455vol3_p1086 /1

Patagonian armour, Smithsonian 24/7495

Plant fibre belt from Marshall Islands

Asante pendant sold in Christie's Paris in 2003

Monkey sold by Christie's 27 October 2004

Egyptian stela sold by Christie's New York 9.12.2005

Chinese jar sold by Christie's on 7.11.2006

Metal hand sold by Christie's 20.9.2007

Add.9455vol2_p392 Metal hand

Add.9455vol2_p338

Irish silver mug sold by Christie's in 2008

Staffordshire plate said to be from Farnham Museum sold Christie's 2010

Nicolas Lancret 'Le Duo' sold at Sotheby's 2009

Barbier-Mueller Museum New Ireland Chalk figure

Notice displayed in Farnham Museum during Captain Pitt-Rivers time [S&SW Museum]

Label from back of New Guinea figure

Easter Island figures

Benin head, with full description on base [Add.9455vol5_p1637 /2]

Documentation on back of Skull rack from PNG

Skull rack now in Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva

Ring Brooch, Metropolitan Museum 1981.413

Add.9455vol2_p15

Fertility figure, Metropolitan Museum 1979.206.75

Tobacco pipes sold by Sotheby's 25.6.1984

Maori skirt sold by Sotheby 25.6.1984

Lot 54 and 55 Sotheby London 25.6.84

2 North American pipes sold by Sotheby 25.6.1984

New Guinea headdress sold 2.12.1980

St Jerome sold by Sotheby 2009

Persian glass sold by Sotheby's in 1976

Plate V Sotheby's sale 23 February 1976

Ekoi helmet mask from Sotheby catalogue 15.7.1975

Maori model canoes as shown in Sotheby's catalogue 15.7.1975

Maori door posts pictured by Sotheby's 15.7.1975

Add_9455vol2_p206

Add.9455vol7_p2074

Sepik house models sold by Sotheby's 15.7.1975

Page 21 of Sotheby's London sale catalogue, 15 July 1975

Add.9455vol2_p473 /2 Shrunken head

Ancient Egyptian Stele sold by Sotheby's 14.7.1975

Benin wood comb, figure 386.

A painting owned by Pitt-Rivers sold by Christie's 29 October 2008

Add.9455vol6_p1821 /1 sold at Sotheby's 26.11.1979

Add.9455vol6_p1821 /1

Add.9455vol5_p1585 /2 & Add.9455vol5_p1586 /1

Add.9455vol3_p1092

Lead figure sold at Sotheby's 2.12.80, said to be Pitt-Rivers

Page 11 of Sotheby's London sale catalogue for 25 June 1984

New Ireland figure sold by Sotheby's

Add.9455vol5_p1664 /2 taken from the June 1984 Sotheby's catalogue.

Add.9455vol3_p1114 /3 as shown in the catalogue

Add.9455vol3_p1114 /3 as shown in the Sotheby's catalogue of 25.6.1984

Add.9455vol4_p1342 /1 New Zealand club

Add.9455vol3_p967

Add.9455vol3_p966

Add.9455vol3_p965b

Add.9455vol3_p965

Add.9455vol3_p901

Add.9455vol3_p899

Add.9455vol3_p867

Add.9455vol3_p805b

Add.9455vol3_p805a

Add.9455vol3_p804

Add.9455vol3_p803

Add.9455vol3_p802a

Add_9455vol3_p801

Add_9455vol3_p800

Add_9455vol3_p756

Add.9455vol2_p638

Add.9455vol2_p636

Add.9455vol2_p571

Add.9455vol2_p512

Add.9455vol2_p506

Add.9455vol2_p503

Add.9455vol2_p500

Add.9455vol2_p457

Add.9455vol2_p454

Add.9455vol2_p453

Add.9455vol2_p452

Add.9455vol2_p451

Add.9455vol2_p450

Add.9455vol2_p449 /3

Add.9455vol2_p444 /11

Add.9455vol2_p449 /1

Add.9455vol2_p327

Add.9455vol2_p202 /3

Add.9455vol2_p157 /2

Add.9455vol2_p126 /1

Add.9455vol1_p193 /5

Add.9455vol1_p85 /3

Add.9455vol1_p191 /1

Add.9455vol6_p1992

Add.9455vol6_p1804

Add.9455vol6_p1766

Add_9455vol5_p1699

Add.9455vol5_p1642

Add.9455vol5_p1627

Add_9455vol5_p1603

Add.9455vol5_p1596

Add.9455vol4_p1507

Add.9455vol4_p1442

Add.9455vol4_p1362

Benin figure sold by Sothebys on 15.11.1965, from sale catalogue

Add.9455vol6_p1926

Add.9455vol4_p1351

Chalk figure sold at Sothebys 15/11/1965, from sale catalogue

Add.9455vol6_p1839

Tlingit rattle, sold at Sotheby's in 15.11.1965, from sale catalogue

Add_9455vol5_p1653 /1 photo

Add.9455vol5_p1653 drawing

Catalogue of Pitt-Rivers second collection Volume 3 page 851

Add.9455vol3_p846 Objects 'field collected' by Pitt-Rivers in France

Add.9455vol3_p782

Add.9455vol3_p1018 /2

Add.9455vol3_p832 /10 showing pencil outline

Add.9455vol2_p286 Indian items from the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886

Image used by Sotheby's of Add.9455vol4_p1512 /1 (back)

Image used by Sotheby's of Add.9455vol4_p1512 /1 (front)

Add.9455vol4_p1512 /1 Maori tiki

Landseer painting Add.9455vol3_p806

Add.9455vol2_p81 Japanese and Norwegian items from Great International Fisheries Exhibition, 1883

Master of San Jacopo

Wood chair, Add.9455vol4_p1375 /1

Writing case Add.9455vol2_p498 /19

A page from volume 2 showing Goddard items from Switzerland [2]

A page from volume 2 showing Goddard items from Switzerland

Attendance figures to Pitt-Rivers' Dorset properties

Acquisition by decade for both collections

Volume 9 page 2340

Volume 8 page 2096

Volume 7 page 2033

Volume 6 page 1867

Volume 5 page 1662

Volume 4 page 1373

Volume 3 page 1097

Volume 2 page 270

Volume 1 page 38

Add.9455vol4_p1332.

Add.9455vol7_p2158 /1

Seen and approved? [Add.9455vol7_p2093 /2]

Add.9455vol5.p1681 /2

Add.9455vol5.p1681 /1

1988.11.2

1988.11.1

Add_9455vol4_p1493 _1

Add.9455vol4_p1337 /1-2

Add_9455vol4_p1318 _3

Add_9455vol4_p1318 _1

Add.9455vol3_p1120 /1

Add.9455vol3_p916 /2 from Holland

A picture allegedly owned by Pitt-Rivers prior to 1880 which was sold at Christie's

Metropolitan Museum Buckle 1986.341

Add.9455vol2_p580 /3-4

Add.9455vol2_p.236/ 2-3 possibly given by Lord Arthur Russell from Naples

Add.9455vol2_p.59/ 5-7

Add.9455vol3_p802b

Add.9455vol1_p226

More of Pitt-Rivers' fine art collection [Add.9455vol2_p328]

Add.9455vol2_p573

Add.9455vol1_p199

Some of Pitt-Rivers' fine art collection

Margaritone d'Arezzo Madonna and Child Enthroned National Gallery of Art from wikipedia

Edwin Landseer 'Wild cattle of Chillingham' from Wikipedia

Add.9455vol2_p449 /2

Add.9455vol2_p300 Items from Guyana, Colonial & Indian Exhibition 1886

Add.9455vol1_p168 /1-4

Sacred family by Palmezzano

Add.9455vol1_p24 /4-8

Benin vessel Add.9455vol6_p1991 /3

One of the models of Pitt-Rivers' excavations

Benin figure Add.9455vol5_p1711 /2

Add.9455vol3_p1079 /3

Maker's mark volume 2 page 144

An illustration of the flint knife taken from the PRM ms catalogues

Add_9455vol2_p727_2 Original CUL catalogue drawing

Add.9455vol3_p1079 /3 from Christie's

Work-rate noted Add.9455vol8_p2183

Makers' marks volume 3 page 771

Maker's mark, Add.9455vol2_p204

Leopard mask, Add.9455vol5_p1642 /2

Egyptian artefacts from volume 4

Add.9455vol6_p1989

1978.412.310 Metropolitan Museum

Comments on drawings: Add.9455vol9_p2298 /2

Benin figure Add.9455vol6_p1989

Add.9455vol7_p2180 /1

Catalogue entry example, Add.9455vol3_p821 /3

Add.9455vol4_p1319 /1

Add.9455vol3_p890 /1_2 Martin ware Jugs

Add.9455vol3_p831

Add.9455vol3_p752 /12

Add.9455vol3_p1030 /2

Add.9455vol3_p1028

(From l. to r.) Walter F. Martin, Robert Wallace Martin and Edwin Martin from the Wikimedia Commons.

Page from CUL volumes

Add.9455vol2_p320 /5 Ard, Location?

Farnham Museum, Plate from 1894 Guide

Add.9455vol5_p1592

Add.9455vol4_p1454

Add.9455vol1_p297

Roman Glass, Room VII, Farnham Museum (Plate XII, 'The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham')

Pottery Room, Farnham Museum (Plate VIII, 'The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham')

Bronze Group (Plate XXII, 'The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham')

Ivory face from Benin (Plate XXI, 'The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham')

Series showing Artificial Cranial Deformation (Plate XVIII, 'The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham')

Wooden figures from Easter Island (Plate XVI, 'The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham')

Woman and Child, Mexico (Plate XV, 'The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham')

Bronze Age skull and grave (Plate XIV, 'The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham')

Tsantas, (Plate XIII, 'The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham')

Pacific Room (Plate IX, 'The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham: General Handbook 1929)

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