Oxford and Empire Podcast: Pitt Rivers Catamaran

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Figure 1 The main hall of the Pitt Rivers Museum. Can you spot the boats? (Pitt Rivers Museum, https://www.glam.ox.ac.uk/pitt-rivers)

Figure 2 The Pitt Rivers Catamaran suspended from the balcony. Photo by author.

Figure 3 Half-page illustration of a Catamaran-man published in the Illustrated London News, 1858. Such illustrations convey the movement of the catamaran in ways the stationary physical object cannot.

Figure 4 Image of a fishing catamaran, circa 1920s. From Hornell (1946) Plate 10 A.

Oxford and Empire Podcast: Pitt Rivers Catamaran

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