Collection Record

letter, 25/04/1936, H.D. Skinner to Willi Fels, Talks about travels, museums and historic buildings visited, receiving the Andree medal. Outlines collections of Maori material in individual ownership; Birket-Smith, and in museums; Hamburg, Dalham, Saarlander Strasse. Discusses exchanges of material. Talks about Nazi elections in Hamburg and fear expressed by Jewish staff at the museum. Arrangements for payment of accounts. Work undertaken by Trendall and acquisition of Greek pottery. Describes headless stone figure from Pitcairn. Notes there is a lack of good material available for sale.