Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1929.
Readers are reminded that this table is a work in progress and may be amended or added to at any time.
| Month | Day | Event | Source of Information | Notes |
| January | ||||
| February | ||||
| March | ||||
| April | No day | Special course of lectures for students from Tropical African Services on African Arts and Industries in Trinity Term | Annual Report 1929 | |
| April | No day | Blackwood is granted one year's absence from being University Demonstrator in Physical Anthropology to take up funding from the Research Committee of the Rockefeller Fund to work in Melanesia | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| April | No day | Blackwood lectures on Human Heredity in Trinity Term | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| May | ||||
| June | 27 | Balfour leaves London to travel to South Africa for BAAS meetings, then travelled to Zambia, Tanzania and Zanzibar. He is president of the Anthropological Section | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| July | [early] | Blackwood leaves England for New Guinea | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 17 | Balfour arrive at Cape Town | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 23-25 | BAAS meeting in Cape Town | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 26 | BAAS meeting moves to Kimberley | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 29 | BAAS moves to Johannesburg | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 3 | Blackwood arrives in Melbourne, Australia | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 9 | Blackwood travels to Sydney, Australia | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 11 | Balfour returns to Johannesburg from Pretoria and Kruger National Park | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 14 | Balfour arrives at Victoria Falls | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 18 | Balfour travels to Broken Hill | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 23 | Balfour travels to Moika | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 24 | Blackwood arrives at Samarai | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 26 | Balfour travels to south end of Lake Tanzania; Blackwood arrives in Rabaul and meets Chinnery | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 29 | Balfour stays in Tanzania | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 31 | Blackwood meets Hortense Powdermaker in Kavieng | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| September | 1 | Balfour takes train to Dar-es-Salam | Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| September | 7 | Balfour sails to Zanzibar | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| September | 10 | Balfour sails to Mombasa, then Nairobi | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| September | 15 | Balfour sails from Mombasa for Europe | Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| September | 21 | Blackwood travels to Buka, Solomon Islands | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| September | 29 | Blackwood travels to Petats | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| October | 12 | Balfour returns to UK | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| November | ||||
| December | ||||
| Unspecified | Beatrice Blackwood begins fieldwork in Buka and Bougainville | DNB entry | ||
| Unspecified | Balfour again complains at lack of space in Museum in annual report | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1929 | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: None specifically listed but work was done recasting series | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1929 | ||
| Unspecified | E.S. Thomas continues labelling and cataloguing work | Annual Report 1929 | ||
| Unspecified | Card catalogue of Naga objects started by Thomas, Balfour hopes that catalogue can be published | Annual Report 1929 |
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