Collection Record

Letter, 18/07/1938, H D Skinner to Bestall, Hawkes Bay Art Gallery and Museum , Suggest packing g in a wooden box. Relating story how a shell from the Solomon islands was sent wrapped in cloth, was smashed in many pieces but repaired by the taxidermist. The patu is exceptional. Discussed other examples of the form which is most closely related to the Tapsell family object, now at Auckland Museum. will put on display and return in a few months.