Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1916.
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 | No day | Beatrice Blackwood starts Oxford Diploma in Anthropology as member of Somerville College | Relational Museum timelines; PRM ms collection Beatrice Blackwood papers box 1; Frances Larson pers comm. | |
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Unspecified | Winter work in Museum hampered by War-time Police regulations regarding lighting (presumably it was too dark to work) | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1916 | ||
Unspecified | Wilfred Susan Blackman continues to volunteer at Museum working on card catalogues | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1916 | ||
Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: food / water vessels, archery, slings bolas lassoes, stone implements | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1916 | ||
Unspecified | The suggestion that the Royal Flying Corps take over the museum did not get approval | Annual Report 1916 |
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