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.