The Pitt Rivers Museum
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- Pitt Rivers died, 4 May
- 2 photographs of Pitt Rivers installed in museum
- Museum visited by Fellows of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Range of screens installed in Court above wall cases to display shields and body armour
- Displays worked on during the year: Weaving, stone implements, pottery, archery, blowguns, bronze age implements, Ancient Egyptian arm ornaments, games, shadow figures, shields / armour, spears
- Haida totem pole, from Masset, acquired by Tylor, erected in Museum by Symm and Co.
- Harold St George Gray resigned to become Curator of Taunton Museum
- Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements, Pottery, Archery, Bronze Age implements, Spear throwers,
- Tylor resigned as Keeper, OUMNH
- Balfour purchased new exhibition cases with money saved by Gray's post not being filled
- Electric light installed in Curator's office and workshops
- Displays worked on during the year: Musical instruments, Fire-making, Pottery, Magic / charms, Shields / armour, boomerangs, fetish figures [sic], war trophies,
- Tylor reappointed Professor of Anthropology
- Further repairs carried out on Museum roof to prevent leaks
- Displays worked on during the year: Musical instruments, Barkcloth, Magic / charms, war trophies, swords and daggers
- Balfour suffered from prolonged ill-health, hampering Museum work
- Committee for Anthropology established by University ?
- Electric light first installed in Museum, paid for by the British Medical Association's Executive Committee ?
- Further wall cases installed in Upper Gallery
- Displays worked on during the year: Musical instruments, masks, boat-models, fire-making, clothing
- Balfour reappointed Curator until 1912
- Balfour and Tylor appointed founding members of Committee for Anthropology
- E.F. Bayzand appointed as Museum assistant
- Plaque installed in Museum to commemorate the installation of electrical light ?
- Diploma in Social Anthropology sanctioned by Convocation
- Francis Howe Seymour Knowles began volunteering at the Museum
- F.C. Carter took photographs of museum objects and prepared lantern slides for teaching ?
- Balfour absent on trip to South Africa, including attending BAAS meeting and collected many objects, July-October
- Magdalen College gave annual grant of £50 to aid Museum's work
- Displays worked on during the year: Lighting, smoking / narcotics, lime spatulae
- Application made for extension to working rooms for storage and sorting objects
- Tylor appointed one of first examiners for Diploma in Anthropology, with Robert Ranulph Marett and Arthur Thomson
- Displays worked on during the year: Ornamental / decorative art, deformation of body, weaving, stone implements, pottery, human form in art, Agriculture, shields / armour, boomerangs, fetish figures [sic], war trophies, headrests
- University provided extension to working rooms for Museum, rooms used as workshop on south side of Museum
- Balfour absent during Long Vacation on second trip to South Africa, July-October
- First Diploma students admitted, Barbara Freire-Marreco, Francis Howe Seymour Knowles, James Arthur Harley, Frederic Charles Joseph Marius Barbeau
- Green shed built for Dept of Engineering Science ?
- Committee for Anthropology granted power to award certificates in Physical Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology
- Displays worked on during the year: archery, medicine / surgery
- The University's Galleries and Ashmolean Museum in Beaumont Street combined to form Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
- Barbara Freire-Marreco began volunteer work at the Museum
- First plans of the Museum's displays prepared by Bayzand for public ?
- Displays worked on during the year: Musical instruments, stone implements, animal form in art, feather ornaments, spears, harpoon spears, religious emblems
- Tylor tendered resignation to University
- Francis Howe Seymour Knowles appointed assistant to Arthur Thomson in teaching physical anthropology
- E.F. Bayzand died and replaced as museum assistant by George Kettle
- Barbara Freire-Marecco continued to volunteer at PRM
- Balfour appointed as examiner for Diploma in Anthropology
- Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements, lighting, archery,
- Tylor retired as Professor of Anthropology and moved permanently to Somerset. Robert Ranulph Marett replaced him as Reader in Anthropology
- Tylor appointed Emeritus Professor
- Balfour again visited South Africa, giving a lecture tour at the request of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, June-October
- Displays worked on during the year: Magic / charms, ex-voto figures
- Committee for Anthropology accepted loan of part of Tylor's library which was housed in Acland House, Broad Street, for the use of university members
- Melville William Hilton-Simpson volunteered at Museum working on new card-catalogue for musical instruments
- Barbara Freire-Marreco continued to volunteer at Museum
- Charles John ffoulkes volunteered at museum working on arms and armour
- R. Poulton volunteered at Museum working on palaeolithic flint implements
- First visits by schoolchildren to Museum recorded in museum annual report
- Displays worked on during the year: Pottery, Currency, ex-voto figures, hair specimens,
- Balfour reappointed Curator until 1919
- Balfour resigns as secretary to the Delegates of the OUMNH
- George R. Carline worked on drafting list of accessions up to 1912
- Wilfred Susan Blackman volunteered at Museum working on fire-making and music catalogues
- Displays worked on during the year: Graphic art, rock / cave paintings, slings bolas lassoes, weighing appliances
- George R. Carline continued work on list of accessions
- Wilfred Susan Blackman continued to volunteer at Museum working on fire-making and music catalogues
- Balfour visited Dordogne, France during Easter Vacation to collect palaeolithic specimens
- Displays worked on during the year: Textiles, weapons with sharks teeth, death, writing, stone implements
- Exeter College gives sum of money for the 'purpose of collecting specimens for the Museum'
- Wilfred Susan Blackman continued to volunteer at Museum
- Balfour visited Australia for BAAS meeting, also calling at Java, Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, , June-November ?
- First record of attempted theft from Museum
- Department of Social Anthropology established, with funding from the Drapers' Company, after successful lobbying by Marret
- Committee for Anthropology gave grant to Maria Czaplicka to collect in Siberia for PRM
- Displays worked on during the year: Basketry, Medicine / surgical instruments, pottery and magic / charms
- Security in museum is strengthened with new locks being fitted
- The 'Green shed' previously used by the Dept of Engineering, became part of the Museum
- Museum roof overhauled and repacked with asbestos ?
- Wilfred Susan Blackman continued to volunteer at Museum
- Arthur Maurice Hocart volunteered to catalogue head-rest series (he does not complete work)
- Displays worked on during the year: Ornamental / decorative art, food / water vessels, smoking narcotics, shields / armour, spears. Clubs, stone implements
- Work in Museum hampered by War-time Police regulations regarding lighting
- Wilfred Susan Blackman continued to volunteer at Museum
- Beatrice Blackwood started Oxford Diploma in Anthropology
- Displays worked on during the year: food / water vessels, archery, slings bolas lassoes, stone implements
- Tylor died, 2 January
- Part of Tylor's collection came to Museum via his wife, Anna, and niece and executor, Dorothy Tylor
- War continued to impede museum work through shortages and high cost of materials and labour
- Balfour appointed Acting Secretary to Delegates of the OUMNH, in absence of Professor Bowman
- Wilfred Susan Blackman continued to volunteer at Museum
- Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements, spear-throwers, bows
- Balfour suffered heart trouble while volunteering for the Anglo-French Red Cross in France
- Blackwood awarded distinction in Diploma in Anthropology, and starts work as research assistant in Department of Human Anatomy, OUMNH
- Hebdomadal Council granted funds for Scientific Assistant or Demonstrator at Museum
- Lady Tylor donated more books from Tylor's library to PRM
- Wilfred Susan Blackman continued to volunteer at Museum
- George Kettle absent for most of year working in Royal Navy
- Displays worked on during the year: Weaving, stone implements, bone horn and ivory implements
- Balfour reappointed Curator until 1926
- George R. Carline took up duties as Assistant Curator
- Wilfred Susan Blackman continued to volunteer at Museum
- Louis Colville Gray Clarke volunteered at Museum after matriculating as candidate for Diploma ?
- Museums Association visited Oxford for annual meeting, a 'demonstration' given for them in the Museum
- Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements, Naga shields
