Ethnography
Cultural material from around the world is represented in our ethnography collection of over 4,000 items. The majority of these items form the internationally important Brenchley Collection, from the Pacific area. This material was collected during the travels of Julius Brenchley, who left Maidstone in 1845 to travel the world. Most of the next 28 years were spent abroad building up the fabulous collections which he bequeathed to the Museum in 1873.
Other material from Africa and Asia includes the Walter Pitt collection of Ashante material from the Gold Coast, plus the Hale collection of the Sakai of Perak (Malaysia).
