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Description: | The collections have been developed since early donations of Arctic and prehispanic artefacts by R.D. Darbishire in 1900-1930, artefacts mainly from Oceania gifted by Charles Heape in 1923 and J.P. Mills' Naga collection (1924). The Kennedy Collection from Oceania and the Carline Collection from Africa were included among items purchased from Halifax Museum in 1955 and the museum also acquired the R.W. Lloyd Japanese collection in 1958. Another important acquisition was the group of 1750 worldwide artefacts from Salford Museum in 1970.
Field collections form an important group and include Wanindiljaugwa material from Groote Eylandt collected in 1952 and gifted by Peter Worsley and also material acquired through fieldwork by University staff e.g. masks and pottery etc collected in Nigeria by Frank Willett (1956-7) and modern Peruvian pottery collected by George Bankes in 1984.
The collections are generally dated from the pre-1960s and contain only around 150 European items, with the majority originating from Africa south of the Sahara (6,000), North Africa (400), Oceania (4,000), Indonesia (300), Asia (2,250), North America (200) and Central and South America 1,300). Also included is a small collection of 300 historical ethnographic photographs.
The museum has also developed its collection through purchases, which more recently include modern hairdressers' signs from Nairobi, examples of modern Zulu beadwork and Mursi artefacts from Ethiopia. Contemporary Manchester culture also features as a small group of material. | Subjects: | World culture political & world cultures Ethnography Religious People | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester,
M13 9PL | FAX: | 0161 275 2676 | Telephone: | 0161 275 2634 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:2353 | Go to resource |
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