Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
University collection of world archaeology and anthropology, rich in Pacific and Fijian objects.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge follows Baron Anatole von Hügel, its first curator, from a young man's voyage to Fiji in the eighteen seventies to a lifetime spent in auction rooms and dealers' shops. It touches the Fijian headrests, pots and satchels he brought back, the cramped annexe where the museum began, and the building fund he set up. Listen in the entrance, then take it upstairs to the Fijian displays.
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