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A Visit to Pitt Rivers Museum.
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"A work of art is the creation of a man whose own personality is in some way reflected in material, form and content, whether it is sculptural, plastic, graphic, spatial or musical. The symbols he employs must also be comprehensible to others, for only thus can his work rise above the individual and take on a wider role" Rene S. Wassing, author of African Art- Its Background and Traditions. A Visit to Pitt Rivers Museum. When inside, the museum displayed archaeological and ethnographic objects from all over the world. The Museum was founded in 1884 when General Pitt Rivers gave his collection to the University. The General's founding gift contained more than 18,000 objects but today there are now over half a million, and the museum continues to expand it's collection. In the Pitt Rivers Museum the displays were arranged 'typologically' (according to type) - masks, tools...
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