The whit-horns in the Pitt Rivers collection were made in the 1890s - half a century after the last Whit hunt (at the enclosure of the forests). They are a link to traditional rural festivals and ...

The cup was part of the second collection of Augustus Pitt Rivers, a Victorian British soldier and archaeologist who founded the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1884. Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy reacted to ...

Mr. Balfour brings out admirably the significance of these stages, and it is scarcely necessary to say that the Pitt Rivers collection, of which he is curator, provides him with ample means for ...

The chalice joined Pitt Rivers’s private collection and was eventually inherited by his grandson, George Pitt-Rivers. George Pitt-Rivers was an anthropologist and one of the wealthiest men in ...