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letter, 07/09/1931, Jhonas. A. Chaplie? Hall to H D Skinner, Report on progress, discussion re black dye. [hard to read]

letter, 20/9/?, Jhonas. A. Chaplie? Hall to H D Skinner, Black dye for Tukutuku, collected kiekie from hunua gorge, boiling minau bark. Hope to record process.

letter, 12/10/1931, Jhonas. A. Chaplie? Hall to H D Skinner, 12 tukutuku dispatched. Suggestions for installing panels.

letter, 28/10/1931?, Jhonas. A. Chaplie? Hall to H D Skinner, checking delivery. Completed 4 more.

letter, 01/12/1931, Jhonas. A. Chaplie? Hall to H D Skinner, Glad work is accepted. Discussion re freight and packing [hard to read].

letter, 03/12/1931, Jhonas. A. Chaplie? Hall to H D Skinner, Please to hear canoe will be restored. Progress report on panels. Collecting kakahe in autumn and fresh pingae. Museum wants Taranaki designs on rauawa. Discussion on sourcing suitable wood.

letter, 07/01/1932, Jhonas. A. Chaplie? Hall to H D Skinner, While on holiday on Coromandel peninsular found human remains in sand as well as large work site with flakes, chips etc and partly worked tool.

letter, 22/03/1932, Jhonas. A. Chaplie? Hall to H D Skinner, Finished panels for "Matatua" (Mataatua). Discussion design for most conspicuous panels.

letter, 5/12/?, Jhonas. A. Chaplie? Hall to H D Skinner, Visiting museums and Rotorua Maori school of art on way back to Auckland. Re changes made to canoe hull at Wanganui are incorrect. Timber used in rauawa of canoe at Otago Museum came from Pupuke Bush Whangarea. Pencil note on back re sinker stone.

letter, 04/04/1931, Jhonas. A. Chaplie? Hall to H D Skinner, Collecting kakaho and pingao. Nearly 40 panels in Hotunui, half square design which was introduced by pakeha. Can he use square designs for Mataatua if he runs short? Discussion center of each panel.

letter, 19/4/?, Jhonas. A. Chaplie? Hall to H D Skinner, Follow up arrangements re dispatch of panels. Comment on state of the nation.

letter, 4/5/?, Jhonas. A. Chaplie? Hall to H D Skinner, Prepared patterns so you have some to choose from. Tuktuku packed and dispatched. Request prompt payment and introduction to curators at museums he will visit. Note on back = travel route.

letter, 09/11/1931 to H D Skinner, Telegram = did Tukutuku arrive safely no word yet.

letter, 04/02/1931, Jhonas. A. Chaplie? Hall to H D Skinner, Back from Tahiti. Query re work on Tuktuku panels [hard to read].

letter, 08/12/1932, Hovell to H D Skinner, Bring tent blankets and mattress. Meet you Matatoki railway station 16th

letter, 07/05/1932, T W E Harrison. St Clair to H D Skinner, Maori adzes in store at National Mortgage from Thomas Mackenzie for Museum

letter, 01/07/1931, ? J Highs London to H D Skinner, Points about editing of C.H.B.E. Manuscripts and your paragraphs on the Maori

letter, 17/08/1932, H Ian Hogbin Sydney to H D Skinner, Regret Rennell arrows not found

letter, 04/08/1932, H Ian Hogbin Sydney to H D Skinner, Please publish enclosed letter in Journal. Note Shackell is wrongly spelled in quote

letter, 27/03/1932, H Ian Hogbin Sydney to H D Skinner, Searched for Rennell arrows. Here is rough sketch. Hope to go back to Rennell. Photos in Illustrated London Times April 4 1931.Two Basalt stone adzes on Rennell