Southern Māori Archives Project

Letter, 04/08/1938, William A Brown, Jeweller, Invercargill to H D Skinner, Enclosing mere and a Tiki to be considered for purchase; the mere's price is £20 and the tiki's price is £5.

Letter, 05/08/1938, H D Skinner to W A Brown, jeweller, Invercargill, Neither the mere nor tiki is of interest and they are being returned - enclosed.

Letter, 13/06/1938, R A S Browne, Morrinsville to H D Skinner, Sending a Cordiceps sp specimen, collected this month. Mr Bowger???? has forwarded a carved spear. Have brought in 40 acres of drained swamp. This includes several dozen stones used for sharpening and forming tools - enclosed. Some may be patus in the rough

Letter, 17/06/1938, H D Skinner to R A S Browne, Morrinsville, Thanking for the adzes and implements, especially one small greenstone adze. The Cordiceps fungus was handed to Dr Holloway.

Letter, 13/05/1938, C T Burnett, Tauranga to H D Skinner, Request for donations of collection items for the newly establised Bay of Plenty Art Gallery and Museum.

Letter, 24/05/1938, H D Skinner to C T Burnett, Tauranga, Acknowledgment of request for donations. States that usually collections are built by exchange instead. Can only offer moa bones for free.

Letter, 29/05/1938, C T Burnett, Tauranga to H D Skinner, Thank you for your reply - we have little to exchange, but other Museums have been generous. Moa bones would be a great asset - address enclosed to send them to.

Letter, 19/09/1938, H D Skinner to C T Burnett, Tauranga, Have packed the leg bones of moa M. casuarinus and P. elephantopus. Will send to Bay of Plenty museum curator when authority of the Minister is received.

Letter, 11/07/1938, William E Buxton c/- Commercial Bank of Australia, Dunedin to H D Skinner, Asking for identification of a fish caught at Port Chalmers by a local fisherman. Identification noted at bottom of page (Plagiogencion rubiginosus)

Letter, 14/07/1938, H D Skinner to William E Buxton, Thanks for fish identified as "plagiogencion, rubiginosus", usually sub tropical and not recorded before in Dunedin.

Letter, 14/05/1938, Illegible signature, Napier to H D Skinner, Request for support and opinion of collection and thanks for assurance of storage room for the collection pending sale of adzes and bamboo boxes, with expectation of an opinion from Dr Carl Schuster when in Bounganville.

Letter, 24/12/1938, H D Skinner to Dr Carl S Enstrom-Caldenius, Saltsjo-Luvnos, Stockholm, Letter of introduction of Dr C E Hercus, representative of New Zealand Government at the Lingiad festival at Stockholm. Credentials of Hercus and Otago medical School. A similar approach is being made to Prof de Geer and Dr Quensil also.