Museum Cambridge

part of APPENDIX F

Cambridge, Great Britain

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Downing Street
Cambridge CB2 3DZ
England

http://museum-server.archanth.cam.ac.uk

The Museum belongs to the University of Cambridge. It houses one of the largest and most important archaeological and anthropological collections anywhere, covering the entire world. In 2002 its collections held a total of 720,000 objects and 90,000 photographs.

Within its Indian and East Asian collections (36,000 ethnological and 12,000 archaeological objects) there is a collection of 516 Andamanese items, most donated 1892 to the Museum by E.H. Man and R.C. Temple, but there are also some from Kew Gardens, A.R. Hulbert and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown.

The collection consists of
- 167 items of hinting equipment
- 110 items of dress and adornments
- 76 items of domestic utensils
- 65 tools
- 46 archaeological items
- 24 samples of wax, resin, clay, shell and stone
- 18 items of ceremonial bones
- 6 items of transportation
- 4 musical instruments

The catalogue of R.C. Temple's donation can be found in the Museum's "17th Annual Report of the Aniquarian Committee, " (1902).

The E.H.Man donation is largely what E.H. Man listed and illustrated in his book "The Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands" of 1885 (London, Anthropological Institute; reprinted 1932, Bibling & Sons, London; reprinted 1975, K.M. Mittal, New Delhi).

However, there is no need to seek out these ancient paper records. The Cambridge Museum's database is what a museum database should be (and so rarely is):
http://museum-server.archanth.cam.ac.uk/Collections/access.html

To gain access to the list of Andamanese objects: (a) click 'search collections', (b) enter "Andaman" in the field 'where object found or collected' and (c) click 'start search'- and the 320 Andamanese objects in the database will appear on your monitor screen.

To gain ain access to the list of Andamanese photographs: (a) click 'search photograph collections', (b) enter "Andaman" in the field 'where object found or collected' and (c) click 'start search' - and the 456 Andamanese and Nicobarese photographs in the database will appear on your monitor screen.

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