Chance and certitude: Pitt Rivers and his first collection

Journal of the History of Collections

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 257-266

  Petch, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61949186311     PISSN: 09546650     EISSN: 14778564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhl028     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. A. Petch, 'Man as he was and man as he is', Journal of the History of Collections 10 (1998), pp. 75-85
2. A. H. L. F. Pitt Rivers, 'Typological museums, as exemplified by the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford and his provincial museum in Farnham, Dorset', Journal of the Society of Arts 40 (1891), pp. 118-19
3. M. Thompson and C. Renfrew, 'The catalogues of the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham, Dorset1, Antiquity 73 (1999), pp. 377-92
4. W. R. Chapman, 'Ethnology in the Museum', D. Phil thesis, vols. 1 and II, Universitv of Oxford (1981), p. 35
5. Pitt Rivers, 'Primitive warfare I-III: lectures delivered at the RUSI' reprinted in The Evolution of Culture (Oxford, 1906), p. 54
6. Mark Bowrden, Pitt Rivers - The Life and Archaeological Work of Lt. General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers DCL FRS FSA (Cambridge, 1991)
7. M. W. Thompson, General Pitt Rivers: Evolution and Archaeology in the Nineteenth Century (Bradford-on-Avon, 1977)
8. Zita van der Beek and Marcel Vellinga, 'Man the collector: salvaging Andamanese and Nicobarese culture through objects', Journal of the Histoiy of Collections 17 (2005), pp. 135-53
9. Philip J. C. Dark, An IllustratedCatalogue of Benin Art (Boston, 1982)
10. Pitt Rivers, Address delivered at the Opening of the Dorset County Aiuseum, Dorchester, January 7 1884 (Dorchester, 1884), p. 8
11. Journal oj the Anthropological Institute 9 (1879), p. 462
12. Pitt Rivers, 'Address to the Dept of Anthropology of the British Association at Brighton', Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1872), p. 171
13. Osbert H. Howarth to Pitt Rivers, dated 26 October 1888, Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Pitt Rivers correspondence collection, L559
14. Pitt Rivers, 'On the Egyptian boomerang and its affinities', Journal of the Anthropological Institute 12 (1883), pp. 454-5
15. Pitt Rivers, Catalogue of the Anthropological Collection lent by Colonel Lane Fox for exhibition in the Bethnal Green branch of the South Kensington Museum June 1874 &mellip; Parts I and II (London, 1874, updated 1879), pp. xi-xiii
16. Pitt Rivers, 'On the principles of classification adopted in the arrangement of his anthropological collection, now exhibited in the Bethnal Green Museum' , Journal of the Anthropological Institute 4 ( 1874 ), pp. 193-308