Southern Māori Archives Project

letter, 09/05/1934, H D Skinner to T W Downes Wanganui River Trust, Mentions Fels visit and lists a Maori trumpet and a Fijian club for exchange. Offers Cook Islands material, Maori needles and a taiaha. Also offers a copy of Buller's History of the Birds of New Zealand.

letter, 20/02/1934, H D Skinner to T W Downes, Acknowledges receipt of hinakis. Has decided to delay responding to Archey's article. Decided to print accounts of his excavations in Otago over the last 15 years. Mentions failure of the maori Ethnological Society to subsidise the Polynesian Society in 1933.

letter, 30/10/1934, H D Skinner to Dr M N Watt, Medical School, Request for list of members of the Microscopical Branch of the Institute

letter, 17/11/193, H D Skinner to Mrs E Wilcox, Shrublands, Patetango, R.D. Morrinsville, Photograph of her brother and other old timers in the Cook Group. Publication of his papers in the Journal of the Polynesian Society is continuing.

letter, 13/11/1934, Mrs E Wilcox, Shrublands, Patetango, R.D. Morrinsville to H D Skinner, Acknowledging receipt of Skinner's letter to her brother Drury, and including a photograph of Drury in The Cooks

letter, 09/03/1934, H D Skinner to Mrs H Wilcox, Morrinsville, Payment for ethnographic material.

letter, 13/02/1934, H D Skinner to Dr Gordon J Williams, Lands and Mines Department, Georgetown, British Guiana, Congratulations on his doctorate and appointment. Comments on Littlebourne Road. Mentions Dr Caldenius working with him and longs for a geologist.

letter, 05/05/1933, Gordon J Williams, Geology Department, Royal College of Science, London to H D Skinner, I have been appointed to a temporary position with the Colonial Service in British Guiana and am leaving in July. I will be returning to New Zealand after my service.

letter, 18/10/1934, H D Skinner to Dr R M Wishart, Melbourne, Dr Benham asked me to reply to your 16 Aug letter. We would be willing to exchange, but we have all the Australian material we need and many pygmy implements. Let me know if you have Melanesian material. We have stone and bone material to exchange.

letter, 25/10/1934, H D Skinner to Mrs. C. Samson, On behalf of the University Council Skinner is giving thanks for Samson's gift of a Maori piupiu.

letter, 16/08/1934, Dr R M Wishart, Melbourne to H D Skinner, I am an ex Dunedinite residing in Melbourne and interested in ethnology. I want some Maori curios and wondered whether I could exchange some Australian specimens for Maori ones.

letter, Young Women's Christian Association to The Committee Exhibition of Chinese Art, Agreement to lend the below list of Chinese items.