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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- 09 JUL 1934
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- 0001.8.20/2.107
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