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This institution also provides a list of works with incomplete provenance during the period 1933-1945.

PITT RIVERS MUSEUM

Designated collection

University of Oxford
School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
South Parks Road
Oxford
OX1 3PP

CONTACT

Michael O'Hanlon, Director
Tel: 01865 270927
Fax: 01865 270943
E-mail:

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF COLLECTION

Archaeological and Ethnographical collections from all over the world

1. OVERALL PLANS

The Museum is unlikely to hold suspect material because the collection emphasises non-European ethnographic and archaeological material that was not considered to be of high monetary value during the period in question.

However, the Museum is undertaking steps to exclude the unlikely possibility that it may house suspect material:

INITIAL FOCUS FOR RESEARCH
Desk research as part of the process of putting records for the collection on computer.

RESEARCH PLANNED IN TARGET AREAS
METHOD OF RESEARCH
For the 'main series' of the collection, documentation has been checked for the period 1933-1950 and nothing suggesting that any of the material is suspect has been found.

The documentation for 'special collections' will be similarly scrutinised.

Museum staff and visiting researchers have been alerted to the research and have been asked to notify the Director if they come across any material they believe may be suspect.

2. INFORMATION ON MAKING GENERAL ENQUIRIES ABOUT COLLECTION

PHOTOGRAPH AND MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS
The Photograph and Manuscript Collections form a curatorial department of the Museum. A substantial part of the department's work is with historical field photographs. It also holds fieldwork notes, correspondence series and working papers of a number of distinguished anthropologists connection with the Museum and/or with Oxford anthropology.

While the Manuscript Collections hold substantial material relating to the history, development and administration of the Museum and its collections, they do not constitute the museum's 'archive' as such. Many records are still 'active' and held by the relevant curatorial department, for example Object Related Document Files.

Requests to consult these records should be made directly to those departments. Some material relating to the Museum's history is also held at the University Archives, Bodleian Library, Oxford. The Photograph and Manusscript Collections are open to research visitors by appointment on Thursdays and Fridays (9am-5pm). Further information is available form:

The Curator of Photographs and Manuscripts
Pitt Rivers Museum
University of Oxford
Oxford
OX1 3PP

Tel: 01865 270 927
Fax: 01865 284 657