2011

SP5106 : Votive offerings, Pitt Rivers Museum

taken 15 years ago, near to Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

Votive offerings, Pitt Rivers Museum
Votive offerings, Pitt Rivers Museum
These are models of body parts given at temples either in the hope of a cure or praying for a cure.
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

The Pitt Rivers Museum LinkExternal link is behind and accessed through the Oxford University Museum of Natural History LinkExternal link. General Pitt Rivers made a vast collection of ethnographic specimens and gave them to the University of Oxford in 1884 to form the museum which bears his name. The exhibits are arranged thematically, and have been kept as items packed together in glass display cases.


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SP5106, 4329 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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David Hawgood   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Thursday, 3 November, 2011   (more nearby)
Submitted
Wednesday, 16 November, 2011
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SP 5153 0694 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:45.5270N 1:15.2887W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SP 5153 0694
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