Southern Māori Archives Project

Letter, 08/09/1938, Reliance Nameplates, Middlesex to H D Skinner, Enclosing statement, requesting payment of 2 shillings and 3 pence for postage

Letter, 12/10/1938, H D Skinner to Reliance Nameplates, Enclosing postal order for 2 shillings and 3 pence.

Letter, 27/10/1938, H D Skinner to Director of Reserves, Wellington, Request for help in supplying samples of New Zealand sprays, flowers or berries for a conversazione on native flora in November.

Letter, 01/11/1938, O L Ferens, Secretary Dunedin Returned Soldiers Association to H D Skinner, Request for donation of half a crown for Christmas Appeal.

Letter, 23/09/1938, H D Skinner to D C Robertson, Riverton, Acknowledging permission to see part of the MacLachlan collection; request for access to the large light opaque greenstone fish hook to make a drawing to accompany a paper being written on Maori fishing apparatus in Otago and Southland. Notes that Mr Willi Fels would like to see the collection when in Riverton.

Letter, 07/10/1938, D C Robertson, Riverton to H D Skinner, Posting the greenstone shank as requested. Mr Willi Fels will be welcome.

Letter, 10/10/1938, H D Skinner to D C Robertson, Riverton, Thanks for the fish hook shank which is being drawn. Regret that all the collection was not viewed; also that Mr Fels did not go to Invercargill therefore was unable to visit.

Letter, 25/10/1938, H D Skinner to D C Robertson, Riverton, Permission the keep the greenstone shank till after the conversazione due to pressure of work on the draftsman.

Letter, 02/12/1938, Lindsay S Rogers F.R.C.S. to H D Skinner, Request, on behalf of a colleague, for a piece of greenstone.

Letter, 19/12/1938, H D Skinner to Dr L Rogers, Te Kuiti, Thanks for gift of 1 guinea which will be applied to membership of the Association of Friends of the Museum.

Letter, 22/12/1938, H D Skinner to Dr Alan S C Ross, University of Leeds, Regarding Ross' memoir on numeral signs of the Mahenjo-Daro script, and Skinner's musings on broadly Indonesian culture.

Letter, 25/04/1938, Royal Anthropological Institute, London to H D Skinner, Informing Skinner of his appointment as Local Correspondent of the Institute for New Zealand.