The Ten Distributions (1950s)

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The 10 Distributions of Ethnography	First distribution	Second distribution	Third distribution	Fourth distribution	Fifth distribution	Sixth distribution	Seventh distribution	Eighth distribution	Ninth distribution	Tenth distribution
Dates	15 June 1949	05 July 1950	14 November 1950	08 February 1951	30 May 1951	18 + 19 October 1951	24 + 25 January 1952	18 + 19 June 1953	11 February 1954	03 November 1954
Type of material	West African objects, largely Nigerian	West and Southern African objects	African objects	African and American objects	Oceanic, SE Asian and some European	American objects, incl Peruvian pottery and textiles	Objects from the 'Belgian Congo'	West and Southern African objects	Weapons	Weapons and miscellaneous
Invited to make preliminary selection	Govt of Nigeria (via Kenneth Murray)	W.B. Fagg (BM) chooses items for Govt of Nigeria	Mrs Goodall, Curator of the Salisbury Museum / The Queen Victoria Memorial Museum	Mrs Goodall, Curator of the Salisbury Museum / The Queen Victoria Memorial Museum					W.B. Fagg (BM) chooses items for Govt of Nigeria and National Museum of the Gold Coast
Recipient museums			Govt of Nigeria?
1	City of Liverpool Public Museums	City of Liverpool Public Museums	City of Liverpool Public Museums	The Royal Scottish Museums	The Royal Scottish Museums	Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford	University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge	University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge	New Zealand Museums	London School of Economics
2	The Horniman Museum	The Horniman Museum	The Horniman Museum	University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge	Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford	University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge	Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford	Rhodes-Livingstone Museum, Zambia (via Bushnell, Camb.)	The Horniman Museum	University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
3	University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge	University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge	University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge	University Museum, Manchester	City of Liverpool Public Museums	City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham	Rhodes-Livingstone Museum, Zambia	The Royal Scottish Museum	Dept. of Anthropology, UCL	City of Liverpool Public Museums
4	Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums	Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums	Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums	The Horniman Museum	City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham	City of Liverpool Public Museums	The Royal Scottish Museum	City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham	University Museum, Manchester	University Museum, Manchester
5	The Royal Scottish Museum	The Royal Scottish Museum	The Royal Scottish Museum	Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums	University Museum, Manchester	The Royal Scottish Museum	Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums	University Museum, Manchester	The Royal Scottish Museum	City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
6	Dept of Social Studies, University of Leeds	Dept of Social Studies, University of Leeds	Dept of Social Studies, University of Leeds	City of Liverpool Public Museums	Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne	University Museum, Manchester	City of Liverpool Public Museums	The Horniman Museum	University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge	The Horniman Museum
7			National Museum of the Gold Coast	Dept of Social Studies, University of Leeds	The Horniman Museum	Dept. of Anthropology, UCL	City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham	Dept. of Anthropology, UCL	City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham	Dept. of Anthropology, UCL
8				City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham	National Museum of the Gold Coast	Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums	Dept. of Anthropology, UCL	Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne	City of Liverpool Public Museums	(Feb 1955) University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Rhodesia (Zimb.)
9				University Museum, Manchester	Uganda Museum	The Horniman Museum	University Museum, Manchester	Dept of Social Studies, University of Leeds	(Nov 1954) The Armouries, Tower of London	Sierra Leone?
10				National Museum of the Gold Coast?	New Zealand Museums	Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne	The Horniman Museum	National Museum of the Gold Coast?	Rhodes-Livingstone Museum, Zambia?	Rhodes-Livingstone Museum, Zambia?
11				Uganda Museum?		Dept of Social Studies, University of Leeds	National Museum of the Gold Coast
12						National Museum of the Gold Coast	Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne
13						New Zealand Museums	Dept of Social Studies, University of Leeds
14						Uganda Museum?	New Zealand Museums