The collection was further added to between 1949-1960, when the Henry Wellcome Non-Medical collection was broken up and items of an ethnographic nature were offered to other museums, including the UCL. By the beginning of the twenty-first century the collection consisted of about 2500 objects, mainly from the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania. The number of textiles in the collection is not high, but of particular interest with respect to decorative needlework.
There is, among others, a late nineteenth century Mahdi officer’s tunic (I.0076), with patchwork pockets, etc.
Digital sources:
- http://ethcat.museums.ucl.ac.uk/detail.aspx?parentpriref= (retrieved 19th April 2016)
- http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/ethno/about/history (retrieved 19th April 2016)
Digital source of illustration (retrieved 25tzh May 2016)
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