Pitt Rivers Museum

So basically.. I am super lucky and got to visit The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, which I HIGHLY recommend anyone visits whether you're an art student, a history student.. or what have you because it is sooooo cool and amazing and so interesting! Basically the reason why I went is because of the theme I chose for my current project, I chose to research tribal fashion, and lifestyles, which has proven to be a much more challenging topic choice than I had first thought. However, I have learnt a lot from this, not only about the tribes, but about myself too, the main one being "keep calm and carry on" which I say to myself a lot more recently than ever before!
The Museum was quite a lot smaller than I expected as it was on the back of the Natural History Museum (which I sneeked a cheeky peek at too might I say) but it was however 3 floors high. I found it really interesting that I could look at what they had in the cabinets, but also there are drawers underneath which you can pull out and look at all the little things in there aswell. Really quite amazing.. you should go! ;)
The main thing I went to see were the 'Shrunken heads' which I found quite beautiful in a disturbing kind of way, as it was hard to believe that those heads were once on someones body.. eurghh! I took a lot of photo's in there, and here are a few I chose to share..

 Shrunken head

 Small thai shoes, the women wore these to make their feet look smaller, which was thought of as pretty, and the men wanted their women to wear them because after years of binding your feet so small, they begin to deform and it is very painful for the women to stand or walk, so the men made them wear them so they had to stay at home.

 Beaded drinking water bottle holder,African.  (It is so amazing how advanced these people were back then)

And THAT my friends.. is what you call research.. ;)