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  • John Ross’s Arctic Artefacts on Display in Oxford

    The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, is home to thousands of treasures. Many of those treasures were taken from (or “gifted by”) indigenous peoples around the world for study or as status symbols in European museums, universities, and private homes.  Among the artefacts on display in the Museum, is a collection of Inuit hunting and fishing tools.…

  • Scandinavian Artefacts in John Lee’s Private Museum

    John Lee’s private museum at Hartwell House was said to contain some 4,000 items. The main room’s sixteen large glass cases and several smaller cabinets formed a ‘miscellaneous collection of articles culled from the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms; as well as antiquarian relics, and works of industrial art.’ The museum had sections devoted to the arts…