ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Explore the database of all the people associated with the Pitt Rivers English collections. This gives information about their lives; their education, careers, place of residence, and their network of friends and colleagues. Select the first letter of their surname from the list below.

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Barbara Whitchurch Freire-Marreco

Career Anthropologist / Museum Professional

Biography One of the first Diploma student at Pitt Rivers Museum, she also volunteered in the museum. She carried out fieldwork in the southern United States [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 12/02/2007]

Biography References ISCA Diploma Register / Claire Warrior, National Maritime Museum / http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0016-7398%28196603%29132%3A1%3C172%3AORA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K

Clubs & Societies British Association for the Advancement of Science / Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations] / Folklore Society / Oxford University Anthropological Society

County London [Greater] / Suffolk

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Photographs Ethnography

Collected around 1911

Dates active 1879-1967

Donated around 1911 / 1954

English collections Leaden pilgrim-bottle, specimen illustrating loop-weaving through a bobbin, rabbit bone, resembling an animal's head, mounted as a pin. Photographs of a young man and of a man and a woman. Taken in London in 1924 when they were appearing in the "Covered Wagon" film.

Oxford Uni College ?Somerville

Oxford Uni Education Yes

Oxford Uni date 1907-

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford 1905-

Portrait link Museum

English collection size 5

Connections Henry Balfour / Mrs] Gebby / [Mrs] M. Forbes / G. Farrow / [Mrs] probably Jessie Margoliouth / Lilian Onslow / Charles Owen