IDNO

P.145611.MUS

Description

Head and shoulders portrait of Thomas Athol Joyce, O.B.E. a British anthropologist working on American and African anthropology at the British Museum. Joyce is depicted with a moustache, with the caption "before he grew a beard" and smoking a pipe. The original portrait is drawn in charcoal?. [JD 15/07/2020]

Place

Europe British Isles; United Kingdom; England; London; British Museum

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Thomas Athol Joyce, O.B.E.

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Clark, Grahame [for 'Prehistory at Cambridge and Beyond']

Date

Collection Name

Museum Objects and Galleries

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.145605.MUS - P.145683.MUS found uncatalogued in a paper and plastic bag in the Paper Archives and transferred by JD 21/11/2019

Letter inside bag from Cambridge University Press to David Phillipson dated 21 November 1989, states "I am returning herewith the photographs you kindly supplied for Grahame Clark's 'Prehistory at Cambridge and Beyond'." [JD 21/11/2019]

Named Person: Thomas Athol Joyce OBE (4 August 1878 – 3 January 1942) was a British anthropologist. He became an acknowledged expert on American and African Anthropology at the British Museum. He led expeditions to excavate Mayan sites in British Honduras. He wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica including "Negro" which was derided in 1915 for its assumption of racial inferiority. He was the President of both the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Anthropological section of the British Association. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Athol_Joyce, JD 15/07/2020]