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Collection Record
Otago University Museum correspondence
letter, 14/11/1935, H.D. Skinner to Norman Potts, Skinner thanks Potts for the two bone fishhook points, the greenstone pieces and the basalt chip-chisel. Skinner explains that the greenstone is bowenite from Milford Sound, a vast number of fake ones were put into circulation in the 1890's by Hyam, a Dunedin jeweller. Skinner explains that the two bone points were made from human bone and the finer one from human skull.
0001.9.23/1.148
Details
- Production Date
- 14 NOV 1935
- Record Level
- Item
- Associated Person
- Norman Potts
- Accession Number
- 0001.9.23/1.148
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