On The Side Of The Angels
Where else but the Pitt-Rivers Museum would you find a case labelled Buttock Ornaments – Africa? Or a couple of cases of betel chewing equipment… next to the opium pipes and snuff boxes. General Pitt-Rivers was a Victorian army officer on a committee to design a new rifle for the British Army, so he started collecting guns. However, once he started collecting, he found he couldn’t stop, and he went on to collect pretty much everything made by the hand…