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letter, no date, Mr Drury Low to H.D. Skinner, List of prices (copy)

letter, 29/07/1933, Mr Drury Low to H.D. Skinner, Corrects concern regarding black dye on sent item; notes satisfaction with list of prices sent. Has sent Ngangie Penu for consideration. Notes high freight costs.

letter, 29/07/1933, Mr Drury Low to H.D. Skinner, Atamira loaded on board after hold up due to family dispute; additional payment made. Books to be sent in next mail.

letter, 18/07/1933, Mr Drury Low to H.D. Skinner, Discussion Kura Vena hook. Fishing in Aitutaki re number of fish to be written about, and related Ajkateni. Comments on other authors about fishing. Comments various people and related objects ie Captain Allen and an axe. List of objects sent to the museum and background. Travels of the Manihiki people including Washington / Teraina.

letter, 8/ to H.D. Skinner, Telegram - code unintelligible. Send Bentleys as used by ..?

letter, 8/5/, Mr Drury Low to H.D. Skinner, Cover page for two Island stories.

letter, 20/04/1933, Mr Drury Low to H.D. Skinner, Discussion work of Te Rangi Hiroa and Kumete, Penu, work box, fish hooks esp made human jaw bone. Trying to source Kumete. Discussion various fish hooks for different fish. Discussion Kumete from Pukapuka, Turu Tua from Aitutaki and Pukapuka. Follow up request for Tokeres (drum), usage and making, and Kaara how it is played. Discussion objects sent re 5 cases as above.

letter, 20/03/1933, Mr Drury Low to H.D. Skinner, Rough list of material being sent. Advise re other objects that will come to market once current owners die. Discussion various people, Emory, Ayson, Williams, Savage, Russell, Frisbie. Discussion Irish side of family. Writing short stories. Social life and scandals - native outlook (sex first, and then food). Green stone adze. Crop production, fish, fishing and fish hooks.

letter, 02/04/1933, Mr Drury Low to H D Skinner, Personal correspondence regarding various activities such as fishing, reading old letters. Talk about which artefacts are made of different types of wood, like Tamanu wood, Iron wood. Mention of some Penus in the Northern Islands made of Ngangie. Mention of large stone pounders from Rarotonga, there are very similarly shaped pounders in Aitutaki.

letter, 21/06/1932, Mr Drury Low to H D Skinner, Correspondence regarding the pricing of some curios. Discussion of some Maori curios. Mr Low mentions having four bowls made of Miro wood, three of them from Pukapuka. Some personal correspondence.

letter, 17/03/1932, Mr Drury Low to H D Skinner, Te.Rangi.Hiroa mentioned you. I may be able to send you curios I have been in the Cooks 20 years have collection of 50 adzes. Worked at Cook Island Trading Co. and in Mauke. and Hervey Islands. Collected specimens for Auckland and Dominion museums. Collecting stories of the first canoes. Ngapuariki canoe. Island named Utataki Enua O Ru. Canoe Tereto O Araura sailed to New Zealand and Arawa tribe

letter, 16/01/1932, E W Gifford University of California Museum of Anthropology to H D Skinner, Thanks for reviewing Bachmann paper. Museum moved to Berkley Campus. Will look for Fish hooks on Parnassus Avenue

letter, 06/05/1931, E H Annabell to H D Skinner, Willing to accept 8 pounds for dog skin cloak. Will provide account of its acquisition

letter, 07/10/1930, Gilbert Archey, Auckland Institute and Museum to H D Skinner, List of items sent in exchange for material sent to Auckland

letter, 10/04/1931, Gilbert Archey, Auckland Institute and Museum to H D Skinner, List of items bequeathed to Otago Museum by Sir Thomas McKenzie, currently en route to Dunedin

letter, 23/03/1931, Gilbert Archey, Auckland Institute and Museum to H D Skinner, Hall has been given permission to do the Tukutuku panels for the (meeting) house, but suggests he be contracted per panel or per foot. Fears the renovation of the Weke Pass paintings will leave them 'much improved'.

letter, 12/03/1931, Gilbert Archey, Auckland Institute and Museum to H D Skinner, Feel free to ask Dowes for a river canoe (he has a 50 foot one set aside that could be fitted up as a waka tau.) Auckland museum now has specimens of all three types of waka but waka tete will need modification. Request for context details for Nordmann in Society Islands. Decline to purchase Marquess Island wale tooth.

letter, 03/07/1931, Gilbert Archey to H D Skinner, We will exchange items from Bollon's collection. Suggestion Fisher should come down Had time with Emory

letter, 31/08/1931, Gilbert Archey to H D Skinner, Samoan drum you sent unpacked. Hall's work on panels set of six done. Now dying black with Hinau and swamp immersion. Tu Hapi is his technical expert.

letter, 08/12/1932, Gilbert Archey to H D Skinner, Fisher working on site and negotiating for whole collection. Trust you will not prejudice our interest