Southern Māori Archives Project

letter, 03/09/1923 to H D Skinner, Invoice of Curios; India, Persia, St Is combs/ girdle, Albania, Borneo, Tibet, China .

letter, 04/09/1923, C.E. Oldman to H D Skinner, Invoice of curios; 8 ethnographic specimens (NZ wood carving), 16 Neui, Marquese, Tahiti

letter, 04/09/1923, C.E. Oldman to H D Skinner, Invoice of curios; Britain, India, China

letter, 04/09/1923 to H D Skinner, Invoice of curios; Fiji, Taonga, Cooks, NZ (box, whistle), India, Borneo, Burma, Malay

letter, 03/09/1923 to H D Skinner, Invoice of curios; Hervey, Persia, India, Parung, Turkey, Circassian, Burma

letter, 03/09/1923 to H D Skinner, Invoice of curios; Persia, India, Ceylon, Burma, China, Kolar.

letter, 03/09/1923, Francis Alfred Russell Sellers to H D Skinner, Invoice of curios; India, Tibet, Turkey, New Guinea, Albania

letter, 15/09/1923 to H D Skinner, Invoice of curios: New Hebrides, Fiji, Solomons, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Tibet, Samoa, NZ (Haui x 2, paddles), Tahiti.

letter, 18/02/1936, Henry Joosten to H D Skinner, Draft of a letter agreeing to arrange accommodation and speaking opportunities for Skinner and son in London and various unrelated personal topics.

letter, 10/05/1927, Chas Nordhoff to H D Skinner, Itemised list of shipment of artifacts from Tahiti and accompanying letter detailing where they came from and costs. Suggestion he ship back what is not wanted if the cost is too great. Description of Marquesan crown that the museum might be interested in acquiring. Comment that the place (Tahiti?) has been "cleaned to the bone by the representatives of some Scandinavian museum"

letter, 07/02/1926, Chas Nordhoff to H D Skinner, Offer to collect items from Tahiti for museum. Hope that an article be rejected so it can be updated with information from Skinner. Comment on potential Polynesian heritage of Santa Rosa Island Indians

letter, 01/04/1927, Chas Nordhoff to H D Skinner, Suggestion that a sum of money be left with AB Donald Ltd to be used to buy items for museum without having to exchange correspondence