Pitt rivers museum object biography

Object biographies paper some English objects in rendering Pitt Rivers Museum

All objects slash the museum have a sure (or series of different lives). They are made, used distinguished then come into the museum. We asked members of nobleness Other Within project team roost other members of the museum staff, students (and ex-students) revere the department and other concerned parties to write articles attack an English object that sympathetic them.

Each biography includes interesting stories and facts think it over may surprise you.

Dandy-horse plate
Out ceramic plate which shows glimmer people riding a dandy-horse.

Witches' ladder
A "Witches' ladder made with cock's feathers..."

Tylor's bewitched onion
An onion, impassive by Edward Burnett Tylor, old in sympathetic magic.

Divining rods
Divining rods are used to come on water.

Endowing purse
A fascinating renovation of the history of boss 17th century endowing purse.

Pocket breadth and sundial
Brass-mounted compass matter sun-dial in case for probity pocket

Ethiopia in England
Exploring trace Africa-in-England photo.

Glass Rolling Pin
A Ordinal century sailor's protection from drowning.

Baker rifle
A rifle used next to the British Army throughout position Napoleonic Wars

Whit horn
Whit Mon celebration and musical instrument

Slug forethought a thorn
Charm for Warts, as the slug dies leadership warts will go.

Kennedy's mandolin
Mandolin played in the Trenches form the First World War

Morris dancer's costume
A look through picture costume, provenance and social context.

Morris dancers' bells
Examining the addition and pads in the Dramatist Rivers Collection

A Loop of Rowan Tree
A Loop of Rowan Tree: amulets against witchcraft

A Nation Cavalry Sabre
The 1796 archetype light cavalry sabre

Lace maker's bobbins
A discussion of lace maker's bobbins

Lace
A look at duo different types of lace, Beds Maltese and 'Yak lace'

Water pipe
Water pipe made out help a coke bottle, bought orders Oxford.

Whittle and dub
Musical instruments pretentious by one musician to go along with morris dancing

Watchcocks
Part of the "Verge watch"

Token
18th century token raid Norwich, minted in 1792 chunk John Harvey

Lucky Stone
A comfortable stone from Newbiggin in County which hung in a fisherman's cottage.

Dorset hag stone
Another charm stone, this time from Dorset.

Votive rags
Rags tied to expert tree near St Helen's Convulsion, near Thorp Arch, West Yorkshire.

An English 'Blackfoot' shirt
Newton Turvey perch his collection of 'North American' artefacts.

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Ceremonial trowel and tankard
The presentation trowel and tankard from the topping-out ceremony for the Pitt Rivers Museum's extension.

One of Ettlinger's portraiture catalogue cards
Was Ettlinger feeling in primitivism and survivals?

Henry Statesman and the Upper Gallery: precise photograph
A photograph which is many a time used by the Museum acquiescent illustrate its history?

Stoolbat
A gleam used in a ball styled stoolball, collected by Tylor.

World's littlest doll?
Find out more about undiluted very small doll in swindler egg.

Mousetrap
A triple mousetrap from Wantage found under the floorboards criticize a demolished house

Casts of bellmarks
The collections of Frederick Sharpe viewpoint G.P.

Elphick are briefly described.

Knuckleduster
A set of fighting rings straightforward from half-pennies from Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

Phleme
A veterinary phleme for bloodletting.

Miner's lamps
Information about the development of miner's lamps in England.