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visited the British Museum in 1843, he did not hide his disappointment: he was unimpressed ‘by the British antiquities everywhere covered in dust and not much esteemed’ and complained that the artefacts were displayed without indication of their
905:. An Ethnological Gallery was opened in 1845. In 1851 there were 3,700 artefacts in the ethnographic collection, displayed in a single gallery. In 1852 this consisted of seventy four cases of material from outside Europe: nine containing 1024:. Fagg was succeeded by Malcolm Mcleod in 1974, and by John Mack in 1990. The museum ceased exhibiting at Burlington Gardens in 1997 and the Department of Ethnography moved back to the British Museum in Bloomsbury in 2004. 1167: 1090: 1250: 822:
The ethnographical collection was originally linked to the Department of Natural History and Curiosities. The addition of material gathered by Captain
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The Department of Ethnography was set up as a separate department in 1946. In 1964 the department received 15,000 items from the
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Early History of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment: Anthropological Discourse in Europe and Asia, 1710–1808
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In 1836 the Department of Antiquities was established and the ethnographic collection was transferred there. When
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In 1866, the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities was formed under the superintendence of
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and his companions between 1767 and 1780, and presented to the British Museum by the
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From 1970 to 2004 the Department of Ethnography of the British Museum was housed at
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Institutionalising Antiquity: Learned Societies and Museums after 1859
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by Marjorie Caygill, British Museum Press, 2nd edition 1992, p4574
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W. Chapman's unpublished D.Phil. thesis, accessed 21 June 2010
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W. Chapman's unpublished D.Phil. thesis, accessed 21 June 2010
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Non-field Collecting (2): Ethnography in the British Museum
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Notable ethnographers who have worked at the British Museum
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until 1781. In 1817 this was supplemented by material from
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Within the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities
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Within the Department of Natural History and Curiosities
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Index

Museum of Mankind
a series
Anthropology

Outline
History
Archaeological
Biological
Cultural
Linguistic
Social
Archaeological
Aerial
Aviation
Battlefield
Biblical
Bioarchaeological
Environmental
Ethnoarchaeological
Experiential
Feminist
Forensic
Maritime
Paleoethnobotanical
Zooarchaeological
Biological
Anthrozoological
Biocultural
Evolutionary
Forensic

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