Often museums are simply characterised as collections of objects, but in fact they are
institutions that derive from complex sets of communities who are all connected to objects in …

The UNESCO collection surveys were designed as a step towards redressing this situation,
by providing Pacific Islanders with information, in summary form, about overseas holdings …

Thanks to the detailed nature of the sketches accompanying an article published in the
Illustrated London News in 1846, it has proved possible recently to trace the history of some …

Abstract The careers of General Pitt-Rivers and AW Franks, two of the leading collectors-
curators of the nineteenth century, are compared and contrasted. A brief account of their …

In a recent account, in the Journal of the Polynesian Society, of Tongan tapua-" polished
ivory shrines"-Fergus Clunie refers to an example in the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers …

Background'From the Islands...'followed Bernard Fagg's Art from the Guinea Coast as the Pitt
Rivers Museum's second temporary exhibition. Opened in November 1965, in a newly …

The Museum has been lucky in that, since it was founded in 1884, it has employed members
of staff who are very interested in, and keen to carry out, documenting the objects in the …

In an earlier contribution to this journal, I provided a brief introduction to t funded'Relational
Museum'project at the University of Oxford's Pitt Museum and an overview of the field …

The artifacts of the Göttingen–Cook/Forster Collection originate mainly from different islands
and cultures from the South Seas; they were collected during the three voyages James Cook …

Chris D. Paulin's account in the pages of this journal (Tuhinga 21; https://www. tepapa. govt.
nz/Tuhinga21) of the Mäori fishhooks at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum …