1998.271.11

Collection type

Photograph

Description

Group portrait of the Diploma in Anthropology Class of 1910. BACK ROW (Students) left to Right : Wilson Dallam Wallis, Diamond Jenness, Frédéric Charles Joseph Marius Barbeau known as Marius Barbeau, FRONT ROW (Teachers) Left to right Henry Balfour, Arthur Thomson, Robert Ranulph Marett.

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

England; Oxfordshire; Oxford; ?Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Person

Named Person Henry Balfour

Named Person Diamond Jenness

Named Person Marius Barbeau

Named Person Wilson Dallam Wallis

Named Person Robert Ranulph Marett

Named Person Arthur Thomson

PRM source Wilson Dallam Wallis

PRM source Beatrice Mary Blackwood

Date / Period

Date of photograph: 1910 - 1911

Acquisition information

Donated: 1939, uncertain

Photographic process

Print silver

Dimensions

Length x Width 113 x 85 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1998.271.11 Previous PRM number: B.66A.11

Research and responses

This is a print made from the copy negative [1998.271.73.1] that Blackwood had made in the USA from Wallis's copy of the photograph. [CM 21/04/2015]

Extract from Blackwood's diary for her 1939 trip to the Sixth Pacific Sciences Congress in San Francisco in 1939. She visited various places on her way to SF, including Minneapolis, where she stayed with Wilson Wallis, who had taken the anthropology diploma at Oxford. And he gave her a copy of this photo, which we now have in our collections ... "18 July 1939: lunch with Wallis and Jenks, socializing ‘Evening spent in talk w. Dr + Mrs Wallis about Oxford + other things. Dr. Wallis produced a photograph of a group consisting of Thomson Marett + Balfour with Wallis Jenness + Barbeau. The original was faded so Allen Wallis [Wilson's son] copied it. Begged for a copy + as t. negative was available this was possible. [inserted note on facing page: Original taken probably in 1910 when Wallis Jenness + Barbeau took the Diploma in Anthropology.]' [Frances Larson 08/08/2005]

Associated publications

Research Publication - Photograph published in Stocking, George, W. 1996 After Tylor. London, Athlone Press. Illustration on p.171. [CK 29/11/1999] Research publication - This photograph has been published in Chris Gosden, Frances Larson and Alison Petch, Knowing Things: Exploring the Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, 1884-1945 (Oxford, 2007), p.129: 'The Anthropology Diploma class of 1910-11 and their tutors. Back row, left to right: Wilson D. Wallis, Diamond Jenness, Marius Barbeau. Front row, left to right: Henry Balfour, Arthur Thomson, Robert Ranulph Marett'. [PG 04/02/2008] Research publication - Reproduced on page 40 of Mary Ellen Blair's book A Life Well Led: The biography of Barbara Freire-Marreco Aitken, British Anthropologist. Santa Fe; Sunstone Press. Research publication - This image (though not this print) has been reproduced in Grażyna Kubica, Maria Czaplicka: Pleć, Szamanizm, Rasa: Biografia Antropologiczna (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego), p.132: 'Wykładowcy Oxford School of Anthropology (siedza od lewej): Henry Balfour, Arthur Thomson i Robert Marett; stoja absolwenci z 1910 roku: Wilson D. Wallis, Diamond Jenne[s] i Marius Barbeau'. [PG 08/12/2015] Research publication – Reproduced as Fig. 3 (p87) in The History of Anthropology: A Critical Window on the Discipline in North America, by Regna Darnell. Lincoln: University of Nesbraska Press, 2021. Research publication – Reproduced as Fig. 3 (p36) in Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology, by Frances Larson. London: Granta, 2021.

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