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Te Kohinga Pūranga

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Otago University Museum correspondence

letter, 09/07/1934, H D Skinner to Dr J C Wadmore, Whakatane, Sent notes on Matatua, would like further information. Asking for translations. Query was the origin of house the dowry of a Whakatane chieftainess who married chief at the Thames. Discussion mermaid motif suggest not European but maori as per evidence verbal history and also on greenstone maraikehu in Auckland museum.

0001.8.20/2.107

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Production Date
09 JUL 1934
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Item
Accession Number
0001.8.20/2.107

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