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Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1931.

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Go to 1930

Month Day Event Source of Information Notes
January
February
March
April No day  Blackwood lectures on Heredity and Racial Crossing in Trinity Term  Frances Larson pers comm.
May
June
July
August
September No day  Blackwood reads paper to BAAS in London on ‘Puberty Rites and Initiation Ceremonies in the Northern Solomons’ University Gazette, 15 June 1932
October No day  Blackwood lectures on Field Methods in Ethnology Frances Larson pers comm. 
November
December
Unspecified Work begins on the photographic collections, mounting them on boards for display and classifying them Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1931
Unspecified More new cases installed Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1931
Unspecified Balfour continues to work on the Westlake collection, he hopes to publish his work soon (he never did) Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1931
Unspecified Displays worked on during the year: None listed but work was done Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1931

 

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