Cambridge, Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, University of Cambridge

Current name(s) of destination(s):

Cambridge, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Country:

UK [1]

England [2]

Destination category:

Institution

Institutional history:

The museum was founded in 1884 as the Museum for General and Local Archaeology, originally housing the collection of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society and 1500 Fijian objects from the former govenor of Fiji Sir Arthur Hamilton. The collection grew based as a result of fieldwork and personal collections.

Notes on distribution:

For more archival links and lists of objects in this museum see drop down on right for Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

According to the EES distribution lists the Cambridge 'Ethnological Museum' were allocated:

MacIver, El-Amrah, 1900-01 (sent 1901)

3 clay boats

Clay cow

Ivory bracelet

4 painted clay cones

Flint lance

Ivory harpoon

Model mace head of clay

Wooden model of Adze

Copper chisel

Flint knife

Large rippled flint knife

2 flint implements

Seeds & small bones

Playing marbles

Pieces of clay dolls

Clay discs

Stone pestle

Slate & ivory ornaments

5 stone vases

Slate

Ivory bracelet

4 alabaster kohl pots, 12th Dynasty

Copper mirror

Copper axe

2 prs horns (ivory, limestone)

6 slates

Ivory hair comb

Fragments of ivory

Slate bracelet

Copper anklet

Beads

3 limestone pendants

Fragments of flints

5 stone vases

43 pieces of pottery

Fragments of basket

3 sets of beads

Petrie (Abydos II), 1902-03 (sent 1903)

Flint implements

Destination location: