Otago Museum Records/Archives

Letter, 15/11/1938, Peter R Glasson, School, Arthurton, Conical Hills, Gore to H D Skinner, Request for information on two flies. Pencilled notes on reverse giving identification details.

Letter, 22/11/1938, H D Skinner to Peter Glasson, Gore, Identity of flies caught and forwarded is Tussock Fly.

Letter, 15/07/1938, H D Skinner to Mrs Gordon Glennie, Wellington, Responding to questions: Detailed discussion about composition of pounamu; specific names for greenstone; size and carvings on tikis, their significance in relation to deceased ancestors; reasons for three fingers in Maori carvings.

Letter, Mrs Gordon Glennie, Wellington to H D Skinner, List of questions about pounamu, tiki, and Maori carvings.

Letter, 28/07/1938, H D Skinner to Mrs Gordon Glennie, Wellington, Returns copy of The Advancement of Science (loaned by Mr Glennie). Expresses interest in any future papers on greenstone from Mrs Glennie.

Letter, 02/08/1938, Elaine Glennie, Wellington to H D Skinner, Enquires about seeing fragments of serpentine bowl. Expresses intent to publish book.

Letter, 05/08/1938, H D Skinner to Elaine Glennie, Wellington, Recommends Mrs Glennie look at the serpentine bowl found by Mantell at Te Awamoa (held by Auckland Museum) instead of his bowl fragments.

Letter, 22/08/1938, Elaine Glennie, Wellington to H D Skinner, Inquires about the production of coloured illustrations for her book. Discusses tiki at Otago and Dominion Museums. Quotes "On the Working of Greenstone" about malachite.

Letter, 29/09/1938, H D Skinner to Elaine Glennie, Wellington, Gives advice for producing coloured illustrations for her book. Discusses tiki sizes and Brunner & Heaphy, whose work she quoted.

Letter, 22/01/1938, Dr Walter Kaudern, Gotesborgs Museum, Sweden to H D Skinner, Thanks for sending Gotesborgs Museum a Maori carved slab, and (in future) stone and bone. Will send material in exchange. Requests to publish Skinner's manuscript in "Ethnological Studies".

Letter, 25/03/1938, H D Skinner to Dr Walter Kaudern, Gotesborgs Museum, Sweden, Thanks for letter and annual report. Expresses intent to publish paper and book on cultural connections between South East Asia and Polynesia.

Letter, 26/01/1938, David A Govan, "Moata", Brighton to H D Skinner, Regarding small beaked whale on Brighton Beach.