A Week At The Pitt Rivers

Cartoonist Tim Hunkin examines wooden heads in the Pitt Rivers Museum.

Cartoonist Tim Hunkin examines wooden heads in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford's Aladdin's cave for anthropologists.

Tim Hunkin, cartoonist and maker of automata, examines the wooden heads that inspired his own contribution to the Pitt Rivers museum.

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Archaeologist Barry Cunliffe examines amulets.

Views of Oxford's Aladdin's cave for anthropologists, the Pitt Rivers Museum. Archaeologist Barry Cunliffe examines amulets.

Barry Cunliffe finds amulets from around the world that represent parts of the body in need of a cure.

PD James learns more about a Fijian whale tooth necklace at the Oxford museum.

PD James learns more about a Fijian whale tooth necklace.

PD James wrote of a Fijian whale tooth necklace in The Children of Men - she learns more about it at the Oxford museum.

P D James included a Fijian whale tooth necklace in her novel `The Children of Men'.

She returns to the museum to discover more about its origins.

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Novelist PD James included a whale tooth necklace in 'The Children Of Men'. She aims to learn more about it at a museum.

Christina Hardyment on medieval long bows.

Five views of Oxford's Aladdin's cave, the Pitt Rivers Museum. Historian Christina Hardyment on medieval long bows.

Christina Hardyment discovers how the English longbow, so successful at Agincourt, compares with bows from around the world.

Musicologist Lucy Doran explores the musical objects of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.

Musicologist Lucy Doran gets lost among the musical instruments collected by Pitt Rivers, Balfour and Captain Cook.

Musicologist Lucy Doran explores the musical objects of the Pitt Rivers Museum.

Five views of Oxford's Aladdin's cave, the Pitt Rivers Museum. Musicologist Lucy Doran explores the musical objects.