Otago Museum Records/Archives

letter, 04/05/1934, AR Goffe to H D Skinner, Noted request for photo. Carvings are "best in NZ and as old as the hills". Stone anchor carved both ends, found at Te Reinga? Request return photos when finished.

letter, 09/05/1934, Assistant curator to WE Goff, Only carving of interest is lintel above door in larger image. Requests price.

letter, 14/05/1934, Goffe to H D Skinner, Price of lintel 25 pounds, states it’s a real work of art. Describes carving, noting it has a feather top fringe.

letter, 21/05/1934, WE Goffe to, Please ship lintel to museum. Note Journal of Polynesian Society has financial issues.

letter, 28/05/1934, Goffe to H D Skinner, Arrangements and cost of shipping lintel. Acquired parts of house from Porangahau. Detailed story of how lintel was acquired inc initial refusal as work was tapu and was in process of being replaced with new carvings. Comment new work in progress was poor quality compared to old work. Goffe and ?great grand son of Mr Matua the 1st ? Put some pieces in a separate pile. Someone cleaned up scrub / fern around other stack of pieces and they caught fire and burned. Agreement ? that Goffe could acquire remaining pieces.

letter, 31/05/1934 to WE Goffe, Agreement on freight cost. Thanks for history of house, can you find out who were the carvers. Note on going work on stone reel and publication of paper.

letter, 08/06/1934, Goffe to H D Skinner, Details re shipping arrangements

letter, 12/06/1934, Goffe to H D Skinner, Lintel is shipped. When acquired from Tipene was very soiled and full of old paint or Kokowai. Cleaned with caustic soda and other, dressed with linseed oil. Has another small, very old carving dug up in sand dunes in Tolomanu Bay in 1906. Also fine Taiahas, beautifully carved. Will follow up carvers of lintel, poss by people of East Coast ?

letter, 21/06/1934, WE Goffe to, Lintel has arrived. Was of agreed quality and will pay full price. Query re small store house lintel, what is price. Do you have any other pieces from store house or old house. Not interested in taihias.

letter, 05/07/1934, WE Goffe to H D Skinner, Correspondence detailing a cheque worth 25 pounds, the cost of a carving? Mention of other carvings. Mention of a fine necklace of drilled Maori teeth found in the sand dunes at a bay, possibly Totanga Bay?

letter, not dated, WE Goffe to, Mention of carvings, some of which are 6 feet high. Mention of 3 human figurines which are "boldly carved."

letter, 13/07/1934, Assistant curator to WE Goffe, Correspondence thanking Goffe for his receipt, the subject of which is not mentioned. Request to Goffe to name the cost of the carvings and storehouse lintel, and to provide a photo of the lintel.