Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1921.
Readers are reminded that this table is a work in progress and may be amended or added to at any time.
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November | 15 | Beatrice Mary Blackwood made Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute | DNB entry; Frances Larson pers comm. | |
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Unspecified | Anna Tylor dies and remainder of Tylor ethnographic collections are donated to Oxford | Relational Museum timelines | ||
Unspecified | Part of Lower Gallery closed so new wall cases could be fitted | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1921 | ||
Unspecified | Upper part of Museum House given to Museum but building work needed on premises not carried out so the building could not be occupied | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1921 | ||
Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Ceremonial weapons and tools, EC Africa [Roscoe collection], Fishing | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1921 | ||
Unspecified | George Carline continues as Assistant Curator working on labelling and cataloguing | Annual Report 1921 | ||
Unspecified | Increased use of the museum by schools is recorded | Annual Report 1921 | ||
Unspecified | Department of Social Anthropology leaves Barnett House and moves to Acland House 40 Broad Street which is shared with the Dept of Geography | Peter Rivière OUG 1914-15: 343-4; OUG 1921-22: 347; DC1/1/2, 15 October 1920 |
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