RFO/A/3/11
The Department of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford) holds a large archive of working papers by R.F. Ovenell of which this transcription is part of a series of Ovenell's manuscript notes relating to Rowell and his work in the 1870s and 1880s made in a lined hard bound book and numbered RFO/A/3/11. We are very grateful to the Ashmolean Museum for allowing us to place this transcription on this website and wish to thank Alison Roberts in particular for her help in this matter. Anyone wanting to consult the originals please contact the Department of Antiquities at Tel: +44 (0)1865 278020 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
This is a transcription of a transcription by R.F. Ovenell of part of a list dated December 1879 of locations of various parts of the Ashmolean Museum collections on that date. It appears to have been written by John Obidiah Westwood, who was one of the Visitors of the Ashmolean Museum (for more information about his other roles, please see Key Players link on menu to the left).
[page 23 of RFO/A/3/11]
[Two foolscap foldings [?insert] MS. [end insert]] [Outside] (Dec’r 1879. State of collections and Catalogue of them.)
Ashmolean Museum. Dec’r 1879
with the MSS catalogues Jno. O. W. [estwood]
[sign. in pencil]
[page 25] ...
Ethnographical Collections
Europe – 0?
Asiatic In glass case [insert] in corner [end insert] & table case under North East window & on wall adjoining Partly catal’d. by Mr. Rowell.
African In Glass case on East Wall (right of doorway) & in [insert] half of [end insert] long table case opposite & on wall adjoining Catal’d. by Mr. Rowell
North America & Esquimaux In two wall cases on left side of Door leading to stairs Partly catal’d. by Mr. Rowell
South American In Wall case between the African Wall case & the Esquimaux Case & in half of table case opposite -- & in Glass case on stairs & on wall adjoining Partly catal’d by Mr. Rowell
Polynesian, New Zealand & Australian. In two Glass Cases on lower Staircase & in the adjacent walls of the stairs Catal’d by Mr. Rowell
Ramsden partly on these walls & in bottom [insert] ? [end insert] of Glass table case under American & African Coll Not Catal’d.
Retranscription by AP December 2013.
