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The Pitt Rivers Museum normally uses a broad continental breakdown for all its objects and this will be used for these statistics. It includes Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Oceania, and Europe.
Here is the breakdown for the founding collection of all objects between continents [1]:
Africa = 1783
Americas = 1746
Asia = 2952
Australia & Oceania = 1711
Europe = 11426
It can be seen that objects from Europe dominate the founding collection.
Here are the percentages:
Africa = 9 per cent
Americas = 8.8 per cent
Asia = 15 per cent
Australia & Oceania = 8.7 per cent
Europe = 58.2 per cent
In other words at least one in every two objects in the founding collection comes from Europe.
To see a country breakdown for each continent go here.
AP, 24.5.2010
Notes:
[1] Note that there is a small over-count of objects, because 12 objects do not have a specific provenance and are listed under two continents