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letter, 15/02/1930 to Emory, Sorry can't travel just now new wing about to open. No openings for ethnology students in NZ so all are in other types of jobs. We would like the Marquesan Coronet for $75. Anxious to get bowls adzes and fish-hooks, pounders or anything. 227 registered pieces from Little Papanui dig

letter, 21/05/1934, H D Skinner to Kenneth Emory, C/O J Frank Stimson Papeete, Thanks for Mrs. Mosher's address. Will pay£1 a price for interesting tapas. Taking Rasmussen's Easter Island collection for $60. Received shark stone from Santa Cruz, Hoping for one or two stone bonito from Bougainville. Tahitian puna not unique. Excavated fine bone harpoon point nearly identical to Marquesas ones. Withdrawal of Maori Purposes Board subsidy means Polynesian Journal will have to reduce to half size

letter, 02/08/1937, H D Skinner to Kenneth Emory, Letter to introduce Mrs A.C.Matheson, a friend of Dunedin Museum who collected an adze from the Society Islands. Asking about sightseeing in Hawaii on her behalf.