Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum

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Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum Cambridge

The Pitt Rivers Museum in Cambridge, England has a substantial collection of New Zealand material, most of it resulting from private collections that subsequently came to the museum. Marshall 2013 has briefly described the collection, which includes a strong Chatham Island component.

Component collections include:

  • Charles Christie,
  • Abner Clough,
  • Sydney Gerald Hewlett,
  • Charles Smith,
  • James Frank Robieson
  • Joseph Banks and
  • Johann Reinhold Forster and George Forster.


Reference

Marshall Yvonne 2013. New Zealand.In Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (eds) World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 554-563. On line.