Southern Māori Archives Project

Letter, 25/01/1938, H D Skinner to P H Buck, I am unsure how you were not notified of your appointment to the award committee. I was interested to hear your views on tahitian pounders.

Letter, 02/03/1938, H D Skinner to The Mayor, Blenheim, The canoe hull your displayed over Christmas did not have the necessary protection. I recommend it be transferred to Dominion Museum so it can be preserved because it is of great scientific value.

Letter, 12/03/1938, T F Bull, Town Clerk, Blenhiem to H D Skinner, Thank you for your recommendation about the canoe, it have been considered by the appropriate committee.

Letter, 16/03/1938, H D Skinner to T F Bull, Town Clerk, Blenheim, Mr Furness sent the history of the canoe. Please send the council my thanks.

Letter, 13/10/1938, Henry Brash to H D Skinner, Enclosing Mr Williams' treatise as promised.

Letter, 11/10/1938, H D Skinner to Charles Brash, Hallensteins Bros. London, Enclosing information on the period of Akhenaten. Replica of Nefertiti and pieces from Tel-El-Amarna were exhibited at a meeting of the Historical Branch of the Royal Society.

Letter, 31/03/1938, H D Skinner to Director, British Museum, Thanking for casts of objects from Maori collection and Parthenon model.

Letter, 31/08/1938, W A? Marsden, Keeper of Printed Books, British Museum to H D Skinner, Thanking for the presentation of 'Otago Museum; Annual Report, 1937' to the British Museum collection.

Letter, 07/09/2938, C Forster-Cooper, Director, British Museum to H D Skinner, Thanking for the presentation of 'Otago Museum; Annual Report, 1937' to the British Museum collection.

Letter, 28/11/1938, H D Skinner to Adrian Digby, Ethnographic Dept. British Museum, request for a drawing of the cutting edge of a Maori stone axe/adze, in order to determine whether it is an axe or adze, for the purposes of Duff's research

Letter, 20/12/1938, Adrian Digby, British Museum to H D Skinner, Having investigated the specimen, it is definitely an adze; sketch and wax impression enclosed to demonstrate this.

Letter, 03/08/1938, H D Skinner to W A Brown, jeweller, Invercargill, Inquiry into the purchase of a greenstone mere.