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    Pitt Rivers Museum is a museum displaying the archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford in England. The museum is located...
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    archaeological reports are published. In 1880 he adopted the Pitt Rivers name on inheriting from Lord Rivers (a cousin) an estate of more than 32,000 acres in Cranborne...
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  • H. Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, whose ethnographic collection, donated to Oxford University in 1883, formed the basis of the Pitt Rivers Museum named after him...
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  • George Pitt, 2nd Baron). Augustus Pitt Rivers founded the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford. His descendants include: George Pitt-Rivers (1890–1966)...
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    zoology and mathematics departments. The museum provides the only public access into the adjoining Pitt Rivers Museum. The university's Honour School of Natural...
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  • to the Pitt Rivers Museum had been mislabelled and likely either stolen and taken by the Maasai under coercion. After this discovery the museum's director...
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    and Repatriation Act as inspiration. In 2020, Oxford University's Pitt Rivers Museum removed its collection of shrunken heads after an ethical review begun...
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  • Augustus Pitt Rivers, ethnologist and anthropologist and founder of the Pitt Rivers Museum, upon whose death in 1900 Alexander inherited the Pitt-Rivers estate...
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    the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers, where the Ohio River is formed. Fort Pitt Museum is surrounded by Point State Park, a Pennsylvania...
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  • collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum contain 310 Amerindian objects donated by Butt Colson as a result of her fieldwork. The museum also holds two reels...
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