nwokikeonyeka/pitt-rivers-igbo-collection

Pitt Rivers Museum (Igbo Collection) Dataset

This dataset is a curated collection of archival records from the Pitt Rivers Museum, specifically focusing on the Igbo people of Nigeria.

💾 Dataset Structure

The dataset is organized as a standard ImageFolder with metadata stored in data.jsonl.

• /images: Contains high-resolution JPEG images sourced directly from the IIIF server.
• data.jsonl: Contains rich metadata (Accession Number, Photographer, Dimensions, Acquisition Info).

Schema (JSONL)

Each line in data.jsonl corresponds to a single archival item:

{
  "id": "prm-object-281877",
  "source_id": "pitt_rivers",
  "source_url": "[https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-281877](https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-281877)",
  "metadata": {
    "title": "Collections online",
    "collection_type": "Photograph",
    "description": "Entrance to a compound of IGBO farmer's house near NEWI",
    "geographical_reference": "Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria\nNewi; Onitsha Province",
    "cultural_groups": "-> Igbo",
    "person": "Photographer Edward Harland Duckworth\nPRM source Edward Harland Duckworth",
    "date_/_period": "1939 - 1949",
    "acquisition_information": "Bequeathed: 1972",
    "photographic_format": "Print"
  },
  "images": [
    {
      "file_name": "prm_prm-object-281877.jpg",
      "original_url": "[https://dams.prm.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/48218/full/max/0/default.jpg](https://dams.prm.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/48218/full/max/0/default.jpg)"
    }
  ]
}

⚠️ License and Legal Information

This dataset contains copyrighted material.

• Content License: The images and data are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license, courtesy of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.
• Attribution: You must attribute © Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford in any use of this data.
• Commercial Use: Strictly Prohibited.

📚 Citing This Dataset

@dataset{nwokike_pitt_rivers_igbo_2025,
  author    = {Nwokike, Onyeka},
  title     = {Pitt Rivers Museum (Igbo Collection) Dataset},
  year      = {2025},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  version   = {1.0},
  url       = "[https://huggingface.co/datasets/nwokikeonyeka/pitt-rivers-igbo-collection](https://huggingface.co/datasets/nwokikeonyeka/pitt-rivers-igbo-collection)"
}