Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1923.
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 | Balfour arrives at Mumbai | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
January | 6 | Balfour sails from Mumbai for Europe | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
January | [end] | Balfour arrives back in UK | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
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[Summer] | Blackwood travels to Turkey, she donates a small collection of amulets and currency she makes there to PRM | Frances Larson, pers comm. | ||
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October | No day | 12 students entered for Diploma in Anthropology course of lectures | Annual Report 1923 | |
November | No day | Balfour loses one or more fingers | Frances Larson pers comm; PRM ms collections J.P. Mills correspondence, letter to Balfour, 4 November 1923 | |
December | ||||
Unspecified | Blackwood resumes duties as Demonstrator now Dudley Buxton returns from world tour. She continues her anthropometric work with Oxfordshire women and on women students | Frances Larson, pers comm |
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Unspecified | Beatrice Blackwood takes B.Sc degree with thesis in embryology | DNB entry | ||
Unspecified | Balfour elected president of Folklore Society for 1923-4, his presidential address is about the welfare of 'primitive people' | Relational Museum timelines | ||
Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: None listed but work was done. Lower Gallery remained closed while work carried out in it | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1923 |
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