Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Biography Known until recently as the 'University Museum' but retitled to make its function clearer. Originally this Museum had been the home of the Pitt Rivers Collection before that became a separate museum. Ethnographic [mostly] collections were transferred from OUMNH to the PRM [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 04/05/2007]

Biography References http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/ / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Museum_of_Natural_History

County Too many counties to list

Relationship Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic EthnographyArchaeologyPhotographs

Dates active to present

Donated around Numerous

English collections Stone tools, pottery sherds, firearm and accessory, horse furniture, coins, glass bottles, weapons, casts, stones, ore specimens, bone tools and bones, pipes, physical anthropology specimens, spindle whorls, vessels, photograph of PRM Court

Institution Yes

Oxford based Yes

English collection size 1159 circa

Connections Mrs Steven or Stephen William Silver / Steven or Stephen William Silver / William Stewart Mitchell D'Urban / George Rolleston / William Buckland / John MacEnery / Captain Frend / F. Grimsley / Henry Hippisley / William Moseley / Frederick George Hilton Price / George Augustus Rowell / Mr Barter / G.E. Smith / Hans Sloane / Mrs Vaux / Joseph Brigstocke Sheppard / John Wickham Flower / Mrs John Wickham Flower / J. Shelley. / Miss F. Shelley / James Charles Clutterbuck / John MacCulloch / Townshend M. Hall / John Evans / ?Arthur John Evans / Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland / Charles J. Bayzand / W.E. Sawyer / Samuel Hazzledine Warren / Frank J. Rawlins? / William Wood / Heathcote Wyndham / / William Chesterman / Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers