Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1897.
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 | No day | Tylor lectures on Early stages of knowledge, science, magic, mythology, history in Hilary Term | Alison Brown pers comm | |
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| April | No day | Tylor lectures on Anthropology of social and political institutions in Trinity Term | Alison Brown pers comm | |
| April | 30 | Letter from Balfour making clear his responsiblities at Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford to Pitt-Rivers | L1811 S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers | |
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| October | No day | Tylor lectures on Anthropology of social, moral, and religious institutions in Michaelmas Term | Alison Brown pers comm | |
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| Unspecified | PRM reverted to labels printed in OUMNH | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1897 | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Musical instruments, food and water vessels, stone implements, palaeolithic implements, archery, blowguns, feather ornaments, ex-voto figures, Cook collection | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1897 | ||
| Unspecified | 'A reference set of ferricyanide prints of all the Ethnographical negatives in the Museum has been made' | Annual Report 1897 | ||
| Unspecified | The Tylors visit Foxwarren Park in Weybridge and see totem pole which was installed there by Bertram Buxton in 1882 | Megan Price, pers comm. | The owners were Fox (ie Anna Tylor) relatives |
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