New Acquisitions

Letter, 11/02/1925, Dr Thomas Thomsen, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen to H D Skinner, Expresses regret that Skinner has declined Danish material. Opts to send a recently acquired small private collection of antiquities

Letter, 11/01/1925, Norman McLean, Christs College, Cambridge to H D Skinner, Advising Skinner that he will be unable to take his M.A. is 1927

Letter, 05/10/1925, M Mackenzie, Walter Peak Station to H D Skinner, Advises that there are Maori ovens with greenstone axes and chisel around them. Also moa bones in caves on the station.

Letter, 13/04/1925, H D Skinner to H D Skinner, Discusses exchanges which would include Maori Adzes for Danish Stone-age items, once Government permission to export has been given.

Letter, 23/07/1925, E J Norris, University of New Zealand to H D Skinner, Draws Skinner's attention to a Times Literary supplement of 11 June 1925 of Dr C E Fox's work "New Threshold of the Pacific" in the Solomon Islands.

Letter, 29/05/1924, R C Clarke, New Hebrides Mission Maritime Service Board to H D Skinner, Forwards a Bill of Lading for goods to hand, from F G Bowie

Letter, 19/09/1924, Dr Thomas Thomsen, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen to H D Skinner, Discusses difficulties with exchanges, especially items from Greenland. Mentions he does have items from Denmark's stone-age which he can exchange. Includes list of Danish antiquities available to exchange with Otago Museum.

Letter, 25/11/1925, T Johnson, NZ Government Pavilion, NZ & South Seas Exhibition. to H D Skinner, Advising that permission has been given to Hand to the Museum two model Samoan houses and two drums

Letter, 23/02/1924, Clive Bell to H D Skinner, Review of The Art of Old Peru

Letter, 24/03/1924, Ellingham? Public Library and Museum of New Plymouth to H D Skinner, Acknowledgement of receipt of exhibits. Request to remind Mr Gibson of an order for Nuia skins

Broken, curved fishhook point with the base and lower point remaining.

Letter, 11/4/192, AE Jenks, National Research Council, Washington DC to H D Skinner, Response to a letter from March 5th. Regrets that no Ifumagao ethnographic material currently available and query about 'very close relationship" between Ifagao and Maori material culture. Return letter (presumably draft/copy) on reverse clarifying that there are isolated points of resemblance (as with "many of the more backward cultures of the Malay Archipelago"), and request for photographs of stone implements from Philippines.