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Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1921.

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Month Day Event Source of Information Notes
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March
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September
October
November 15 Beatrice Mary Blackwood made Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute DNB entry; Frances Larson pers comm.
December
Unspecified
Unspecified Anna Tylor dies and remainder of Tylor ethnographic collections are donated to Oxford Relational Museum timelines
Unspecified Part of Lower Gallery closed so new wall cases could be fitted Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1921
Unspecified Upper part of Museum House given to Museum but building work needed on premises not carried out so the building could not be occupied Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1921
Unspecified Displays worked on during the year: Ceremonial weapons and tools, EC Africa [Roscoe collection], Fishing Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1921
Unspecified George Carline continues as Assistant Curator working on labelling and cataloguing Annual Report 1921
Unspecified Increased use of the museum by schools is recorded Annual Report 1921
Unspecified Department of Social Anthropology leaves Barnett House and moves to Acland House 40 Broad Street which is shared with the Dept of Geography Peter Rivière OUG 1914-15: 343-4; OUG 1921-22: 347; DC1/1/2, 15 October 1920

 

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