Southern Māori Archives Project

Letter, 10/08/1938, NZ Federation of Young Farmers Clubs to H D Skinner, Thanks for your address and showing us the Maori Exhibits

Letter, 04/09/1930, The Zinco Collotype Co, Edinburgh to H D Skinner, We supplied Museum Post Cards and would like to send more

Letter, 22/08/1938, H D Skinner to Director Zoological Survey of India, We are posting the reports requested except for 1929

Letter, 25/07/1938, Director Zoological Survey of India to H D Skinner, We want to have a complete set of you your reports but lack a number. Please send

Letter, H D Skinner to, Report on Department of Anthropology. Accessions by gift from Lady Nicholson, W Mirow, W Bird, E Johnson, Teviotdale, Leslie Lockerbie, Rev A Mason, Willi Fels, A G Strong, J R Irvine, B C Galloway, Captain Lamb, Accession by exchange, Easter Island adze, a pick, obsidian points, a skull, collection from Banks Peninsula. By Purchase, Serpentine pendant, Feather box, a tokotok an onewa, Adzes from Wanaka, Polished greenstone, Marquesan fan, 2 bailers, 300 pieces from the Cox collection, 2 Marquesan clubs, 100 Southland adzes, 2 bone fish hooks, through Drury Low pieces of the Mauke canoe and others. Accession through staff: Stone and bone material. Old World Material: 100 finger rings, bronze fibule, bracelets and arrow heads from Italy, 200 pieces from the British Museum.

Letter, H D Skinner to, Report on Department of Anthropology. Accessions by gift: Sir Louis Barnett, Miss Coreen Ogston, Mr George Rae, Judge H Ayson, G Miro, Norman Hall, Charles Nordhoff, Rev George West Miss Hope Birt, W B Benham, Miss Theomin, By Exchange: From Taksharu Takamatsu, H T Stearns, Harry Beasley, S M Hovell, British Museum, Dominion Museum and Canterbury Museum. By Purchase: Weathered gatepost head and flanking figure, stone and bone fish hook shanks, Human teeth necklace, Stone Kumara God, Stone reel with drill points, 2 pigeon snare troughs, Marquesan material, Tahitian stone turtle, Easter Island breast piece female figure and bird, Rapa stone material, Tubuai Carved post, Cooks material from Drury Low include parts of canoe from Mauke. Through Staff: 273 pieces from Teviotdale

Letter, H D Skinner to, Notes for additions to draft report

Letter to, Notes and prices to alter cases

Letter to, List of materials for renovations cost £1.10.11

Letter to, Costs for alterations to 3 cases 1st floor £10,11.0

Letter to, Notes on cost of agricultural exhibit and museum staff and employing a clerk

Letter, 31/07/1931, Gilbert Archey Auckland Museum, Z.N. to HD Skinner, Thanks for Samoan lali which will be more than compensation for the tukutuku panels. Also thanks for unstated information regarding kumara.