Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum
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 Bands 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.