Oxford and Cambridge Expedition to South America
The Oxford and Cambridge Expedition to South America took place in 1957-8, when teams from Oxford and Cambridge Universities drove overland across South America in three Land Rovers.[1]
The expedition was the third in a series of overland expeditions undertaken by a joint team from both universities. The first, in 1954, was the Oxford and Cambridge Trans-Africa Expedition, from London to Cape Town, and the second and most famous was the 1955-6 Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition, from London to Singapore.
While on the expedition team member Adrian Cowell met the Villas-Bôas brothers and left the Oxford and Cambridge Expedition to join them on the Centro Geographico Expedition to find the geographical centre of Brazil.[2]
Ethnographic items collected were donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford by Peter Rivière on behalf of the expedition.[3]
Team members (partial list)[edit]
- Adrian Cowell (Cambridge) (previously a participant on the 1955-6 Singapore expedition)
- John Moore (Cameraman)[1]
- Nigel Newbery (Oxford) (previously a participant on the 1955-6 Singapore expedition)
- Peter Rivière[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Bishop, Michael (22 September 2011). "Expeditions and Land Rover". They Found Our Engineer. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
- ^ "Biography: John Adrian Cowell 1934 - 2011". Adrian Cowell Films. Archived from the original on 10 May 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
- ^ "South American Tropical Forest Material". Pitt Rivers Museum. Archived from the original on 10 October 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
- ^ "Professor Peter Rivière". Oxford University School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnology. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 21 January 2014.