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Robert Bruce Napoleon Walker
Robert Bruce Napoleon Walker (1832 – 1901), F.R.G.S., F.A.S., F.G.S., C.M.Z.S., known as Brucie Walker, was an English trader, explorer and collector of zoological specimens in West Africa. The Founding Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum includes a large number of objects collected by Walker.
==Career==
Walker worked as a trader for Hatton & Cookson of Liverpool. In 1851, he moved to Gabon from Sussex, and was based in Gabon for 23 years. He was a significant contributor of African artifacts to British museums, in particular, his collection of African shields.〔(19th century Field Collecting ), Oxford University, accessed 1 August 2008〕 He was involved with General Pitt-Rivers, after whom the museum in England is named, in the affairs of the Ethnological Society of London (ESL) and the Anthropological Society of London (ASL); and the original collection of the museum is attributed to him. He collected ethnographic objects from 1862 onwards, particularly of Ba Fan tribes.〔 Walker became a member of the Anthropological Society of London in 1864 and contributed many objects from the Republic of Congo, Porto Novo (capital of Benin) and Gabon. A particular gift he made was an ornament collection, the adorned girdle worn by Mpongwe women. He translated the Bible into Mpongwe language and donated it to ASL. The Pitt Rivers Museum has recorded 143 items collected by Walker, including weapons, spears and arrows. Some of his curious collections in the museum include two bead necklaces from Gabon and the "Plait of Hair of Pamela Canot".〔
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