Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Archives
letter, 23/02/1935, Ethel U Fuich to H D Skinner, Address for Mrs Fuich in England. Travel update.
letter, 22/06/1935 to Leslie H Goddard, Source of greenstone. Adze found by Mr Willes. Other greenstone and/or NZ adze found in the Island and Australia.
letter, 10/06/1935, Leslie H Goddard to H D Skinner, Information re Adze, dark greenstone, found 1927 on midden between beach and river at Davenport, Tasmania. Owner Ches L Willes.
letter, 29/03/1935 to William Goodlet. , Gun collection from Mr Wills came to the museum thanks to your suggestion.
letter, 26/07/1935, Geo Graham to H D Skinner, very hard to read - identifying Maori people from photographs, gives 5 names. Burial methods in N Guinea and for Maori. Discussed 8 burial wrappings used on Rangitiki. Saw bodies at Kaipara in 1883 in a cave. Describes tattoo and clothing. Bodies moved? to old Pa site at Tauhara.
letter, 01/08/1935 to Mr Graham, Discuss burial methods, specifically mummification process used by Maori.
letter, 12/04/1935 to Geo Graham, Sending image of Maori taken by unknown photographer in the sixties. Requesting names. Will be publishing paper on the carved house "Matatua" soon.
letter, 08/10/1935 to Mr Greener, Thanks for donation of Egyptian material, fragment of pottery and bas-relief of Horus. Update on Egyptian display.
letter, 31/08/1935, Leslie Greener to H D Skinner, Sending pottery and bas relief - details on page 2. Comments about Mussolini.
letter, 28/08/1935, H.D. Skinner to Dr.F.Fitchett, Thanking Dr. Fitchett on behalf of the Department of Anthropology for permitting Teviotdale to use his house to test for maori remains. Apologies for lack of findings despite confident hypothesised success in the area, believed to be one of Dunedin's richest sites.
letter, 25/11/1935 to Miss M Greenwell, Thank you for sending dresses to be used in exhibition.
letter, 19/11/1935, Miss M Greenwell to H D Skinner, Sending Chinese dresses loaned from Miss Moncrief. Sent urgently and no time to get dry cleaned, please can you get them cleaned.