The Pitt Rivers Museum
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- Penniman took advantage of war to purchase many objects flooding onto market
- Henry John Walters retired and was replaced by son Henry Frederick Walters
- Blackwood compiled catalogue of museum's lantern slides
- Very large number of volunteers worked in museum: Mr Gibbs, F.H.S. Knowles, A.S. Barnes, A.D. Lacaille, S. Hazzledine Warren, R.J.C. Atkinson, Miss J Watters, Mrs Meinhard, Mrs Maspero, Mrs Clibborn, RJC Atkinson, Kenneth Hutton, Major Pollard, Heinrich M
- Work continues on card catalogue system
- Displays worked on during the year: Balkan Peasant work, Stone implements
- Green shed reorganized to take M.D.W. Jeffreys collection donated by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum ?
- Museum House partly cleared, and lantern slides, negatives, films and photographs stored in basement ?
- Meinhard almost completed catalogue of Balfour collection, other volunteers included Mr Ford, Mrs Maspero
- Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements, pottery, clothing, bone horn ivory implements, Malayan brasses, Maori cloaks,
- Death of Marett February 1943
- Following volunteers worked in Museum: Mr Robins, F.H.S. Knowles, G.E.S. Turner, Miss Nevell, Meinhard
- Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements, food / water vessels, bone skates, early metallurgy, land transport models, treatment of dead enemies, lace
- Founding collection and artefacts transferred from Ashmolean Museum in 1886 were catalogued onto cards
- Work took place on stored collections in Museum House
- Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements, pottery, fire-arms
- First Occasional Paper, 'The manufacture of a flint arrow head' by F.H.S. Knowles is published by museum
- Meinhard's work on the Jeffreys collection completed
- John Spencer Purvis Bradford appointed Departmental Demonstrator
- Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
- Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements, fire-making, feather ornaments, boomerangs, harpoon spears, weighing appliances, fire-arms, Japanese netsuke, toilet appliances, personal ornaments
- J.S.P. Bradford actually joined staff
- Work carried out on collections stored in out-buildings and main Museum.
- F.H.S. Knowles volunteering working on stone tool displays
- Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
- Displays worked on during the year: Ancient and modern tools, stone implements, personal ornaments, toilet appliances, weight and measures, fire-making, fire-arms
- Edward Evans-Pritchard appointed Professor of Social Anthropology, 1946
- Return of Maori meeting house to Arawa people, New Zealand [previously property of Makereti, Mrs Staples Brown]
- Exchanges with other Museums resumed after the war
- Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
- G.E.S. Turner continued to volunteer
- R.C. Gurden joined staff as Librarian and Secretary
- Final member of Walters family joined staff, Kenneth Henry Walters as technician
- Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements, personal ornaments,
- Plans formulated by University Surveyors' to refurbish old Department of Geology accommodation adjacent to Museum for library etc
- Museum stores were moved from Museum House to the basement of the Examination Schools
- Museum lost 9 Crick Road to Dept of Botany
- Penniman assured that most musical instruments were in playing condition
- Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
- Displays worked on during the year: Much work undertaken to 'restore overcrowded cases to the original idea of General Pitt Rivers', cases in Lower Gallery
- Following volunteers worked in Museum: F.H.S. Knowles, G.E.S. Turner
- Penniman, Blackwood and Bradford elected Fellows of the Society of Antiquities
- Second Occasional Paper [Laura Start] published
- Department of Geology moved from building alongside PRM
- Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
- Balfour Library opened in former Dept of Geology space, together with new staff offices
- Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements
- Work on Balfour Library etc concluded
- Third Occasional Paper published, 'The Technology of a Modern Stone Age People in Central New Guinea' by Blackwood
- Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
- Displays worked on during the year: metallurgy, lighting, some ornaments case
- Fourth Occasional Paper published, 'Notes on the Prehistoric Metallurgy of Copper and Bronze in the Old World', by H.H. Coghlan
- Displays worked on during the year: Court near main entrance, also Geometrical Form in Art and Animal Form in Art and several of the Pottery cases, food containers etc
- Walter Charles Brice joined staff as University Demonstrator and Lecturer
- Technicians continued to work on pest control in the Museum
- F.H.S. Knowles ill so could not volunteer, G.E.S. Turner continued to volunteer
- Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
- New glass roof put on museum, whole building rewired
- Cataloguing work carried out on objects in Examination Schools basement
- Displays worked on during the year: Cases in Lower Gallery, and Court were rearranged including Human form in art, Barbaric and Civilized Popular art, Religious emblems and ritual objects, cosmetics, traps, fishing gear, currency, wooden locks, combs, med
- Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
- Fifth Occasional Paper published, 'Pictures of Ivory and other Animals Teeth, Bone and Antler'
- Displays worked on during the year: musical instruments displays, stone implements, some rearrangement of displays in the Lower Gallery including removing the display of objects associated with flagellation [!], and some displays in Upper Gallery includin
- Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
- F.H.S. Knowles died, 4 April
- Work at the museum adversely affected by building of new Chemistry department
- Laboratory for analysis of specimens set up
- Displays worked on during the year: craftman's tool case, looms and weaving, ceremonial staves, fishing and self-bows
- Sixth Occasional Paper published, 'Stone-Worker's Progress, a Study of Stone Implements in the Pitt Rivers Museum' by F.H.S. Knowles
- Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
- John Linton Myres died, last of the people associated with the setting up of the Diploma course
- Museum helped host 1954 Oxford BAAS meeting
- BAAS meeting held in Oxford, 2 sections were held at the Museum [Anthropology and Engineering]
- Seventh Occasional Paper published, 'Hair Embroidery in Siberia and North America' by G. E. S. Turner
- Second laboratory built within entrance lobby
- Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
- Audrey Butt joined as University Demonstrator and Lecturer in Ethnology
- Displays worked on during the year: None listed
- Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
- Blackwood allowed to continue work for 3 years after normal retirement age by University until 1959
- Displays worked on during the year: Barkcloth, stringwork, and further work on musical instruments, feather headdresses
- Eighth Occasional Papers published, 'Notes on Prehistoric and Early Iron in the Old World' by H.H. Coghlan
- Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
- New garden set up at rear of museum
- Displays worked on during the year: Musical instruments, Bronze and Iron Ages
- Title of Department of Ethnology changed to Department of Ethnology and Prehistory
- Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
- Displays worked on during the year: musical instrument displays, Bronze and Iron Age displays
- Work carried out on paintings and other 2D art storage
- Beatrice Blackwood starts work on compiling information which will later be published as 'The Classification of Artefacts in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.'
- Blackwood retired from PRM but continued to work at the Museum
- Ken Burridge appointed as Demonstrator
- Building work carried out on office area
- Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
- Displays worked on during the year: storage areas of museum, textiles, Australian shields, treatment of the dead, amulets, Far Eastern metallurgy, musical instruments, Chinese porcelain
- Roof repaired [again]
- Sometime during the 1960s separate Board of Visitors set up for PRM
- Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman, other staff had become involved over the last few years and would in future take over maintenance of the records
- Blackwood worked on gazetteer of African group names
- Occasional Paper no. 9 published, 'Bagpipes' by Anthony Baines
- Displays worked on during the year: musical instruments, almost completing the incorporation of the musical instruments given by Balfour in 1939, magical objects, archery,
- A new Museum kitchen was built
