National Anthropological Archives

Photograph of Oxford University Diploma in Anthropology Class, 1910-1911

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.76-130
Dates:
1910-1911
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
1 Copy print
Repository:

Scope and Contents note

Scope and Contents note
Group portrait of recipients and dons of Oxford University Diploma in Anthropology Class, made in June 1910. The anthropologists depicted are Wilson Dallam Wallis, Diamond Jenness, Charles Marius Barbeau, Henry Balfour, Arthur Thompson, and Robert R. Marett.

Biographical/Historical note

Biographical/Historical note
Oxford University's Diploma in Anthropology was introduced in 1906. Wilson Dallam Wallis and Charles Marius Barbeau were Rhodes Scholars who graduated with diplomas in 1910. Diamond Jenness attended Oxford on a Balliol scholarship and received his diploma in 1911. Balfour, Thomson, and Marett were the three most influential dons in the early period of the Anthropology Diploma. Balfour served as curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford, Thomson lectured on human anatomy and physical anthropology, and Marett served as Secretary of the Committee of Anthropology.

Administration

Author
Sarah Ganderup
Custodial History note
Donated by Robert F. Spencer, Professor of Anthropology at University of Minnesota, 1976.

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access note
The collection is open for research.
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Conditions Governing Use note
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Preferred Citation note
Photo lot 76-130, Photograph of 1910-1911 Diploma in Anthropology Class, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Location of Other Archival Materials

Location of Other Archival Materials
The Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University holds the papers of Henry Balfour, Arthur Thomson, and Robert Marett, as well as the original of this photograph.
Location of Other Archival Materials
The University of Minnesota Archives holds the Wilson Dallam Wallis papers.
Location of Other Archival Materials
The Canadian Museum of Civilization holds the papers of Charles Marius Barbeau.

More Information

Local Call Number(s)

Local Call Number(s)
NAA Photo Lot 76-130


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Photographs Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Wallis, Wilson D. (Wilson Dallam), 1886-1970 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Marett, R. R. (Robert Ranulph), 1866-1943 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
University of Oxford. Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Thomson, Arthur, 1858-1935 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Balfour, Henry, 1863-1939 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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