ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Top 10 types of objects from the OXCMS and PRM Oxfordshire 'ethnographic' collections

Alison Petch,
Researcher 'The Other Within' project

 

OXCMS most popular types of objects

Number of objects

PRM most popular types of objects

Number of objects

1

Tool

9,038

Photograph

5,110

2

Photograph

8,173

Textile

510

3

Writing

6,280

Tool

253

4

Clothing

4,202

Music

227

5

Vessel

3,826

Box

209

6

Textile

3,304

Lighting

188

7

Food

2,326

Toy & Game

139

8

Picture

1,760

Fire

119

9

Toy & Game

1,742

Writing

106

10

Insignia

1,487

Technique

96

 

Photographs are very common types of object in both collections (it is easy to store large numbers of photographs because of their size and shape). Tools are also common in both collections but other types of collections seem to vary in popularity quite a lot. Writing is the third most common OXCMS type of object, but only number 9 in the PRM collections; Textiles are the second most common PRM type of artefact, but only the sixth in the OXCMS collections etc.