Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1917.
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 | 2 | Tylor dies | DNB entry | |
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| July | No day | Blackwood spends vacations during her Diploma working on archaeological sites in France working with Abbé Breuil | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
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| Unspecified | Blackwood receives Certificate in Cultural Anthropology | Frances Larson pers comm. | ||
| Unspecified | Tylor's collection of ethnographic objects is bequeathed to Oxford | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report | See also 1921 | |
| Unspecified | War continues to impede museum work through shortages and high cost of materials and labour | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1917 | ||
| Unspecified | Balfour appointed Acting Secretary to Delegates of the OUMNH, in absence of Professor Bowman | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1917 | ||
| Unspecified | Wilfred Susan Blackman continues to volunteer at Museum working on card catalogues | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1917 | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements, spear-throwers, bows | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report | ||
| Unspecified | Balfour absent from museum on Red Cross duties for unspecified period | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1917 | ||
| Unspecified | Library books from Tylor's donated library are temporarily stored in Green Shed until they can be moved to the Radcliffe Library | Annual Report 1917 |
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