Contributors to the founding collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum and Pitt-Rivers' second collection

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Zekan; Biography: Noh mask related.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Zoami; Biography: Noh mask related.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Zschille, Louis Moritz Richard; Biography: German collector of arts, antiquities, arms and order and manufacturer. Participated in World Exhibition Chicago 1893. According to BM collections database 'Stadtrat of Grossenhain 1889-1898; collection auctioned in London, Paris and Berlin in and after 1897.' Based in Grossenhain, Saxony.; Dates: 1847-1903; Source: http://saebi.isgv.de/biografie/Richard_Zschille_(1847-1903); Collection: Second collection

Oddities:

33rd Regiment officer; Biography: Nothing is known of this collector who served with the 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot during the 1868 Abyssinian campaign.; Dates: Unknown active 1868 and after; Source: http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armycampaigns/africancampaigns/campabyssinia.htm

60th Rifles; Biography: Nothing specific is known of the individual from the Rifles who gave this object. The light infantry regiment was formally known as the King's Royal Rifle Corps. In 1815, its name was changed to The Duke of York's Own Rifle Corps. It was originally recruited from American colonists. In 1966 it became part of the Royal Green Jackets. Use of the old name might suggest the object predated 1815. It might also be that the item came from Colonel North, qv, who served with the 60th Rifles.; Dates: No specific dates known

'Captain Cook'; Biography: i.e. found during first voyage of Captain Cook by unnamed person about whom nothing is known.; Dates: No specific dates known

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