ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

What proportion of the Pitt Rivers Museum's English collections were part of the founding collection

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What proportion of the Pitt Rivers Museum's English collections were part of the founding collection?

Class

Number of objects from England in founding collection

PR English as % of overall Engiish collections

Number of objects in overall English collections

Agriculture

2

0.8

241

Animalia

139

24.9

557

Animal Gear

82

21

389

Bag

1

0.8

117

Basketry

0

0

60

Body Art

0

0

114

Box

26

1.1

2,352

Carving

3

60

5

Ceremonial

5

4.2

118

Children

1

0

1,483

Clothing

33

2.8

1,152

Commemoration

2

1.1

169

Cordage

5

13.8

36

Currency

13

5

255

Dance

0

0

37

Death

119

26.2

453

Dwelling

68

31.9

213

Fan

1

2.8

35

Figure

37

7.4

495

Fire

33

3.8

859

Fishing

11

4.9

223

Food

58

20.9

277

Geology

70

6.7

1,044

Hunting

0

0

30

Insignia

4

1.1

343

Lighting

11

1.4

735

Lock

16

1.7

918

Marriage

0

0

35

Mask

0

0

3

Measurement

7

1.5

454

Medicine

0

0

284

Metallurgy

12

19

63

Model

25

10.6

234

Music

10

0.5

1,925

Narcotic

17

10.3

165

Navigation

11

11.8

93

Ornament & bead

51

3.7

1,367

Physical Anthropology

225

90.3

249

Picture

36

6

593

Plant

78

47.8

163

Pottery

3,326

81.9

4,057

Punishment & Torture

4

14.8

27

Religion

25

4

625

Reproduction

25

2

1,210

Scientific Apparatus

0

0

80

Specimen

172

12.4

1,386

Sport

0

0

49

Status

3

4.9

61

Technique

12

0.7

1,621

Textile

93

3.5

2,652

Theatre

0

0

57

Time

0

0

59

Toilet

19

7.5

251

Tool [definite]

1,713

9.2

18,433

Tool or weapon

366

24

1,522

Toy & Game

33

1.2

2,573

Trade

13

7

185

Transport

5

0.9

527

Vessel

495

44.4

1,113

Weapon [definite]

159

8.2

1,926

Writing

32

1.3

2,436

Total number of objects from England

6,219

15.5

39,978