Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Archives
letter, 26/05/1944, Mary and Emily Richmond, Wellington to H D Skinner, Thanks for your appreciation of our gift of Vol II of the Richmond - Atkinson letters to the Hocken. Thrilled Norman Richmond has handed over his collection of J C Richmond's pictures
letter, 08/07/1943, Capt. Angus Ross, 23 NZ Bn to H D Skinner, Called at the Graeco-Roman Museum at Leptis Magna, the Rockfeller Palestine Archaeological Museum in Jerusalem. The Tunisian campaign was a great success.
letter, 30/03/1944, R K Macfie, Whitcombe & Tombs to H D Skinner, Could we order your text books for 1945 immediately and are there any alterations?
letter, 24/08/1944, Alice Woodhouse, Alexasnder Turnbull Library to H D Skinner, Could we have an extract of your supplementary paper from Vol 45 of Maori amulets is stone bone and shell so they can be bound together
letter, 04/01/1944, H D Skinner to District Manager Government Bureau, Rotorua, Thanks for your letter of Dec 20 1943 and apology for giving you this trouble
letter, 25/06/1944, F/O H M Jennings, RNZAF Ottawa to H D Skinner, At Watertan Lakes met Mrs Kemmis and saw her collection of original Indian pieces. Small basalt adze well polished 6"x 2" x 1/2" from the site called Buffalo Jump where buffalo were stampeded off a cliff to their death
letter, 27/03/1944, L.H Trenn. Mangaia, Cook Islands to H D Skinner, Thanks for gift of book to 15 month old daughter. Comments about the progress of the war especially re the Japanese in the Pacific.
letter, 09/10/1943, L.H Trenn. Mangaia, Cook Islands to H D Skinner, Response to queries about a coconut wood weapon (korare); amd maro (clothing ?). Also thanks for book and various personal comments.
letter, 06/05/1944, Thomson, Otago Art Society to H D Skinner, Regarding proposed exhibition in the Hocken Wing.
letter, Undated, The Territorial Association of Otago to, Objects of the Association.
letter, 03/02/1937, H.D. Skinner to A.H. Maciver, Skinner discuses the upcoming society meeting and its members. Skinner dicuses his opinion on Arthur Vogan.
letter, 31/10/1937, Dr R M S Taylor to H D Skinner, Referring to unsuccessful application for Canterbury Museum position. Asking advice about suitable American museums for further study.