George Reginald Carline
| George Reginald Carline | |||||||||
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| Born | 1885 | ||||||||
| Died | 1932 | ||||||||
| Residence |
3 Park Crescent, Oxford Historical Medical Museum, 54a Wigmore Street, W. 47 Downshire Hill, Hampstead, NW3 [1917] Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford [1919] Bankfield Museum, Halifax, Yorks [1925] | ||||||||
| Occupation | museum work | ||||||||
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1912.11.26 proposed by H. Balfour, seconded by A.C. Haddon
death noted in Report of the Council 1932-1933
obituary in Man 1933, 55
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George Reginald Carline (1885-1932) was educated at Repton and Exeter College, Oxford. He studied for the Diploma in Anthropology at the Pitt Rivers Museum. He worked on the staff of the Oxford English Dictionary and as an assistant curator at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. From 1919 to 1926 he worked at the Pitt Rivers museum as an assistant to Henry Balfour, the curator. He was the first president of the Oxford University Archaeological Society in 1919. He excavated with Gertrude Caton-Thompson and William Flinders Petrie in the Fayum in Egypt from 1925-6. From 1926 until his early death in 1932 he worked as Keeper at the Bankfield Museum in Halifax, Yorkshire. His folklore obituary records:
During the past year he had been working on the arrangment of a new Ethnograpical Room recently added to the Museum and formally opened about two months before his death. The method of arrangement was a new and experimental one, being an attempt to combine geographical sequence with a typographical arrangement, while laying emphasis on the aesthetic value of each specimen by its position. In replanning the whole collection, which contained exhibits of greatly varying range and merit, into an organic whole, he took endless trouble to satisfy the artistic sense he had inherited and developed. The work was heavy and the re-arrangements necessitated by the acquisition of the ethnographical section of the collection of the late John Speak possibly contributed to his breakdown. [HCL, 1933: 115]
Carline joined the Folklore Society in 1912 and was elected member of the Council in 1917. He collected in South and Central Africa, Central Europe and the Balkans which he visited on various occasions. The Folklore obituary remarks
He was keenly interested in Folk Museums, and in 1921 was sent to Sweden by the Anglo-Sweden Society to study the subject in Scandinavia, and after his return strongly advocated the establishment of a similar type of museum in England. [HCL, 1933: 116]
He attended the International Congress of Peasant Art at Prague in 1928 as one of three delegates from the Folklore Society. On his return he became a representative of the Society on the newly begun British National Committee for Folk Arts and Crafts. In 1929 he went to South Africa with the British Association for the Advancement of Science (Balfour was also on this trip). According to his obituary in Nature, 'afterwards spending some time in observation among the Mambwe tribe of Northern Rhodesia'.
Although he lived a long way from London in later years his Folklore obituary says that he was a regular attendant at Council and evening meetings. He did much work on British calendar customs. He also belonged to the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, and was President of the Halifax Literary and Philosophical Society. The obituary concludes:
His fellow members of the Council will sadly miss his absolute sense of rightness and his perfect courtesy, and many others a friend whom they will not easily replace.
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Related Material Details
RAI Material
MS28 VIGNOLA, Amedée
Translation of the introductory chapters and tables, from the French, in Tous [sic] les femmes
MS173 Newspaper and periodical cuttings arranged according to subject. 1931
Other Material
English artefacts donated by Carline to the Pitt Rivers Museum
Carline donated a total of 11 artefacts to the Museum from England