Cottie Arthur Burland Slides Collection

35mm slides collected from various sources by Cottie Arthur Burland for research, reference and presentation. The slides cover a range of subjects, historical periods and geographic locations (principally Europe, North Africa and the Americas. The slides depict various aspects of a regions' material culture, crafts, and archaeological sites.

The original order of the slides, as accessioned into the Horniman Library, has been maintained (see Visual Materials Accessions register). The final three digit number in the Reference Code at file level corresponds to the accession number assigned to the slides by the Horniman Museum Library in 1983. Individual slides were numbered by the Horniman Library with their accession number following by a rolling number.

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Cottie A Burland, curator and author, in 1925 he became an ethnographer for the British Museum, and held that position for forty years. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Air Force and in 1950 became the honorary curator for the Abbey Art Centre Museum in New Barnet, Hertfordshire, a position he held until 1955. Burland was a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Societe de Americanistes de Paris, the Folklore Society of London, the Ludwig Keimer Foundation and the British Society of Aesthetics. He was a prolific author and published a number of books on ancient religions, the occult and primitive art.