Pitt Rivers Museum
Ethnography museum of crowded Victorian cases, reached through a natural history hall.
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This guide to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford stands you beneath the Star House Pole, a red cedar carved in the eighteen seventies for a Haida chief in Masset, on the islands of Haida Gwaii. It reads the pole as a stack of animals and family stories, from Raven and a magical salmon to a society of talking bears. Along the way it meets Edward Tylor, the Oxford professor who wanted it. Best heard standing at the foot of the pole, looking up.
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