"First it bowled me over. . ."
". . .with the beauty of its objects: ice-skates and obsidian mirrors, ivory bows and chased armour, basketwork sieves and cactus-wood graters".
Image: PittRivers Museum
Oxford's High-Victorian Pitt Rivers museum has been restored.
Each exhibit, in this Noah's Ark of all the Earth's artefacts, is a wormhole out of the museum and into the lives of the culture that made it. . .
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