1998.267.173

Collection type

Photograph

Description

View of museum from Lower Gallery looking towards totem poles from west side

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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

England; Oxfordshire; Oxford; Pitt Rivers Museum

Date / Period

Date of photograph: 1983 - 1984, uncertain Date of photograph: 10/1983, uncertain

Photographic process

Print colour

Dimensions

Length x Width 89 x 130 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1998.267.173 Previous PRM number: B.67.173

Research and responses

According to the annual report of the Museum for 1983-1984: 'General Pitt River's gift was finally accepted and the acceptance sealed in 1884; 1984 was therefore the Centenary year. A Centenary exhibition was opened in January, in the presence of the Vice-Chancellor and the Lord Mayor. It covered the General's career and his importance in the development of 19th century anthropology and archaeology, the forty-eight years in offfice of Henry Balfour, the growth of the collections and present collecting policy, teaching, the archive photograph collection, and the range of Museum activities. The Journal of the Anthropology Society of Oxford (JASO) devoted a large part of issue to the museum, and these articles with others were printed by JASO as a special Centenary volume, The General's Gift. A range of souvenirs—mugs, book-marks, pens and pencils, rubbers, note-pads - was added to the academic publications, leaflets and postcards already offered for sale. All were designed within the Department, as was exhibition poster.'

Note that 1998.267.271.1-14 is said to have been photographed in October 1983 and shows very similar content, it seems likely that this set of colour photographs and those black and white ones were complementary documentation of the process of preparing the centenary exhibition [AP October 2007]

Search terms: Museum, Exhibition, Landscape/View