Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1951.
Readers are reminded that this table is a work in progress and may be amended or added to at any time.
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| October | 1 | Walter Charles Brice joined staff as University Demonstrator and Lecturer | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1949-50 | |
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| Unspecified | New glass roof is put on museum, whole building rewired | Relational Museum timelines /Annual Report 1951-52 | ||
| Unspecified | Cataloguing work is carried out on objects in University's Examination Schools basement by Brice and Gurden | Relational Museum timelines /Annual Report 1951-52 | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Cases in Lower Gallery, and Court were rearranged including Human form in art, Barbaric and Civilized Popular art, Religious emblems and ritual objects, cosmetics, traps, fishing gear, currency, wooden locks, combs, medicine | Relational Museum timelines /Annual Report 1951-52 | ||
| Unspecified | Work continues on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman | Relational Museum timelines /Annual Report 1951-52 | ||
| Unspecified | Fifth Occasional Paper published, 'Pictures of Ivory and other Animals Teeth, Bone and Antler' | Relational Museum timelines /Annual Report 1951-52 |
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