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Finnish family

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Catalogue Entry (Pitt Rivers Museum)
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Commentary
Finnish family
Accession number: 
1941.8.79
Collection: 
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

View of five members of a Finnish family seated around a table.

Photographer: Unknown
Date of photograph: Circa 1870s
Continent: Europe
Geographical area: Northern Europe
Country: Finland
Region/Place: Satakunta; Säkylä
Cultural group: European Finnish
Format: Black and white print, hand-coloured (mounted on card)
Size: 102 x 135 mm; 156 x 193 mm (with mount)
Acquisition: Joan Evans. Donated August 1941

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Primary documentation: ‘[p.588] Dr. JOAN EVANS, from the property of the late SIR ARTHUR EVANS, Youlbury, Boars Hill, Oxford. [List of items follows]’; ‘[p.590] 2 coloured photographs of Finnish types, mounted on cards’: Pitt Rivers Museum accession records (Donations X, 1937–1941), pp.588, 590. Notes on print: ‘FINNISH FAMILY/ SÄKYLÄ. W. FINLAND’ (written in black ink on print). Notes on mount: ‘NATIONALDRÄGTER fr. SÄKYLÄ/ (i vestra Finland.)’ (printed on mount card).