- Table of Contents
- Classes & Named Collectors
Pitt Rivers Museum Named field collectors
The shape of their collections up to 1945
Named collectors as field collectors
Classes |
Seligman |
% |
Tylor |
% |
Pitt Rivers |
% |
Balfour |
% |
Blackwood |
% |
Agriculture |
5 |
0 |
24 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
94 |
1 |
15 |
0 |
Animalia |
85 |
2 |
11 |
1 |
25 |
0 |
182 |
2 |
221 |
7 |
Animal Gear |
4 |
0 |
20 |
2 |
19 |
0 |
71 |
1 |
14 |
0 |
Bag |
9 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
129 |
1 |
72 |
2 |
Barkcloth |
17 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
118 |
4 |
Basketry |
2 |
0 |
11 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
105 |
1 |
203 |
6 |
Body Art |
0 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
62 |
1 |
37 |
1 |
Box |
2 |
0 |
9 |
1 |
22 |
0 |
569 |
6 |
9 |
0 |
Carving |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
Ceremonial |
7 |
0 |
7 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
87 |
1 |
79 |
2 |
Children |
1 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
27 |
0 |
130 |
4 |
Clothing |
16 |
0 |
30 |
3 |
22 |
0 |
191 |
2 |
258 |
8 |
Commemoration |
3 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
Cordage |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
17 |
0 |
13 |
0 |
Currency |
48 |
1 |
17 |
2 |
3 |
0 |
345 |
4 |
340 |
10 |
Dance |
3 |
0 |
8 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
17 |
0 |
80 |
2 |
Death |
9 |
0 |
19 |
2 |
12 |
0 |
142 |
1 |
23 |
1 |
Dwelling |
2 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
48 |
1 |
23 |
0 |
23 |
1 |
Fan |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
0 |
12 |
0 |
Figure |
21 |
0 |
185 |
19 |
13 |
0 |
782 |
8 |
138 |
4 |
Fire |
0 |
0 |
7 |
1 |
20 |
0 |
976 |
10 |
49 |
1 |
Fishing |
11 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
98 |
1 |
96 |
3 |
Food |
21 |
0 |
34 |
3 |
18 |
0 |
170 |
2 |
220 |
7 |
Furniture Dwelling |
11 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
48 |
0 |
21 |
1 |
Geology |
634 |
14 |
7 |
1 |
17 |
0 |
131 |
1 |
28 |
1 |
Headhunting |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Hunting |
8 |
0 |
18 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
33 |
0 |
47 |
1 |
Insignia |
38 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
40 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
Lighting |
0 |
0 |
24 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
953 |
10 |
13 |
0 |
Lock |
0 |
0 |
7 |
1 |
18 |
0 |
23 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Marriage |
0 |
0 |
11 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
31 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
Mask |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
9 |
0 |
Measurement |
4 |
0 |
16 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
172 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
Medicine |
4 |
0 |
7 |
1 |
4 |
0 |
76 |
1 |
25 |
1 |
Metallurgy |
13 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Model |
2 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
47 |
0 |
68 |
2 |
Music |
9 |
0 |
17 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
573 |
6 |
148 |
4 |
Narcotic |
25 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
255 |
3 |
82 |
2 |
Navigation |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
38 |
0 |
33 |
1 |
Ornament & bead |
364 |
8 |
130 |
13 |
16 |
0 |
496 |
5 |
684 |
20 |
Photograph |
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
27 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
Physical Anthropology |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
65 |
2 |
35 |
0 |
74 |
2 |
Picture |
10 |
0 |
83 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
58 |
1 |
47 |
1 |
Plant |
5 |
0 |
7 |
1 |
78 |
2 |
109 |
1 |
79 |
2 |
Pottery |
190 |
4 |
200 |
20 |
2,806 |
63 |
738 |
9 |
237 |
7 |
Punishment & Torture |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
12 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Religion |
29 |
1 |
283 |
29 |
22 |
0 |
1053 |
11 |
116 |
4 |
Reproduction |
47 |
1 |
124 |
13 |
5 |
0 |
339 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
Scientific Apparatus |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Specimen |
634 |
14 |
7 |
1 |
157 |
4 |
334 |
3 |
236 |
7 |
Sport |
0 |
0 |
11 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
13 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
Status |
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
84 |
1 |
47 |
1 |
Technique |
30 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
268 |
3 |
33 |
1 |
Textile |
15 |
0 |
24 |
2 |
12 |
0 |
426 |
4 |
22 |
1 |
Theatre |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Time |
0 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
31 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Toilet |
3 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
27 |
0 |
142 |
1 |
33 |
1 |
Tool [definite] |
2,674 |
57 |
96 |
10 |
1,097 |
25 |
2,892 |
30 |
642 |
19 |
Tool or weapon |
455 |
10 |
13 |
2 |
260 |
6 |
376 |
4 |
214 |
6 |
Toy & Game |
5 |
0 |
215 |
22 |
3 |
0 |
119 |
1 |
138 |
4 |
Trade |
31 |
1 |
9 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
157 |
2 |
328 |
10 |
Transport |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
61 |
1 |
32 |
1 |
Vessel |
40 |
1 |
16 |
2 |
78 |
2 |
225 |
2 |
191 |
6 |
Weapon [definite] |
220 |
5 |
120 |
12 |
41 |
1 |
1,066 |
11 |
304 |
9 |
Writing |
42 |
1 |
22 |
2 |
3 |
0 |
365 |
4 |
10 |
0 |
4,673 * |
- |
982 ** |
- |
4,464 |
- |
9,716 |
- |
3,348 |
- |
|
Seligman* |
Tylor ** |
Pitt Rivers |
Balfour |
Blackwood |
* Note that to calculate the Seligman figures we have just typed Seligman in field collector field, which means that it will catch items collected by both Brenda and Charles Seligman (which makes more sense to me, bearing in mind Fran's archive research).
** Whereas for Tylor's field collection we searched on his full name, this will not be the case for the PRM source totals for objects for him
Just to show what difference there potentially is working even on named collector statistics between using the 'up to 1945 database' and the on-line objects prm database, here are the corresponding totals up to 2003
Seligman* |
Tylor ** |
Pitt Rivers |
Balfour |
Blackwood |
|
Total number of objects field collected by named collectors |
4,798 |
985 |
4,468 |
11,913 |
6,526 |
Obviously all the classes would also be slightly different, the differences are due to those items accessioned after 1945 from these collectors (like BB who worked after 1945) or found unentered items (from people like Balfour and Pitt Rivers who we are still finding masses of objects that were accessioned from during Court Project). Note that because these figures were worked out on the live database on 16.10.03 they will be different in the future.
Significant collections for each named collector are marked in red (significance is taken as being 10 per cent or over).
Summary
Seligman field collection:
Is dominated by stone tools which form more than half of the collection, other numbers are very low.
Tylor field collection:
Pottery and religious items are the two most significant classes that Tylor field collected.
Pitt Rivers field collection:
Pottery is by far the most dominating collection, with stone tools a distant but still dominating force.
Balfour's field collection:
A third is composed of stone tools.
Blackwood's field collection:
For Blackwood the most significant classes were tools and ornaments and beads. It might be significant that it was a woman collector who collected a higher percentage of ornaments and beads than other objects (or it might not).
Note that generally pottery and tools predominate, and both of these probably have a large number of guesstimate total number of objects per entry (because sherds and stone tools are the worst entries for imprecise numbers), this could be distorting any of these results.
Percentages of collections classified by type for each named collector
and for the global collections
Seligman % |
Tylor % |
Pitt Rivers % |
Balfour % |
Blackwood % |
Global % |
|
Agriculture |
0 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0.7 |
Animalia |
2 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
7 |
1.7 |
Animal Gear |
0 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0.7 |
Bag |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
0.9 |
Barkcloth |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
0.4 |
Basketry |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
6 |
2.3 |
Body Art |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0.7 |
Box |
0 |
1 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
2.5 |
Carving |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Ceremonial |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
1.5 |
Children |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
0.8 |
Clothing |
0 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
8 |
3.8 |
Commemoration |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.1 |
Cordage |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.6 |
Currency |
1 |
2 |
0 |
4 |
10 |
2.2 |
Dance |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0.6 |
Death |
0 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2.6 |
Dwelling |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0.3 |
Fan |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.1 |
Figure |
0 |
19 |
0 |
8 |
4 |
5.3 |
Fire |
0 |
1 |
0 |
10 |
1 |
1.6 |
Fishing |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
1.4 |
Food |
0 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
7 |
2.7 |
Furniture Dwelling |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0.5 |
Geology |
14 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1.6 |
Headhunting |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.1 |
Hunting |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0.9 |
Insignia |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.4 |
Lighting |
0 |
2 |
0 |
10 |
0 |
1.3 |
Lock |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.1 |
Marriage |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.1 |
Mask |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.2 |
Measurement |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
1.8 |
Medicine |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0.9 |
Metallurgy |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.3 |
Model |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1.2 |
Music |
0 |
2 |
0 |
6 |
4 |
3.3 |
Narcotic |
1 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
2.0 |
Navigation |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0.7 |
Ornament & bead |
8 |
13 |
0 |
5 |
20 |
11.8 |
Photograph |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1.4 |
Physical Anthropology |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
0.7 |
Picture |
0 |
8 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1.3 |
Plant |
0 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
1.3 |
Pottery |
4 |
20 |
63 |
9 |
7 |
7.0 |
Punishment & Torture |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.1 |
Religion |
1 |
29 |
0 |
11 |
4 |
8.4 |
Reproduction |
1 |
13 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
1.2 |
Scientific Apparatus |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Specimen |
14 |
1 |
4 |
3 |
7 |
3.7 |
Sport |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.1 |
Status |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1.6 |
Technique |
1 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
1.6 |
Textile |
0 |
2 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
3.2 |
Theatre |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.2 |
Time |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.1 |
Toilet |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1.1 |
Tool [definite] |
57 |
10 |
25 |
30 |
19 |
32.1 |
Tool or weapon |
10 |
2 |
6 |
4 |
6 |
5.9 |
Toy & Game |
0 |
22 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
3.1 |
Trade |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
10 |
1.5 |
Transport |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0.8 |
Vessel |
1 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
6 |
4.1 |
Weapon [definite] |
5 |
12 |
1 |
11 |
9 |
15.7 |
Writing |
1 |
2 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
2.0 |
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