Collection Record

letter, 20/10/1934, H. D. Skinner to W. O. Oldman, Thanks for note from September alongside twenty prints. Mentions of Maori pieces. Author has resigned from joint editorship of the Journal of the Polynesian Society so can't say if they will be published as soon as possible. Talks of putorino, curved whistles, as well as two of each straight ones, a trumpet, a flax muffler. Speaks of Andersen most likely asking for larger prints of Polynesian pieces. Goes on to say the finances of the Polynesian society have fallen into a parlous state. Thanks for photographs of pieces willing to exchange, would like to secure a feather-box and Marquesan fan. Goes into collectors in England setting out to furnish art galleries much rather than ethnographic museums. Fishing traps, stone and bone implements, and all other materials are of no account to Oldman, so what could they offer to him, curved whistles, bone-boxes, steel-cut feather-box, stone and stalactite pounders from the Cook Islands are mentioned.