Otago Museum Records/Archives

letter, 18/08/1935, Simcox to H.D. Skinner, Thank you for lending your book on the subject of the Moriori people, there are may points I'd like to discuss someday, and would like to buy the notes from a seminar. I've included a rough sketch of the amulet and an adze from Whangapoua. Could you please send me a list of numbers of interest from the Journal of the Polynesian Society

letter, 17/08/1935, H.D. Skinner to Samuela Ariki, Thanks for sending the incised stone pendant, the coral hook and the pearl shell hook. I am disappointed with the coral one but am interested in the pearl shell one.

letter, 20/07/1935, Samuela Ariki to H.D. Skinner, Thanks for your letter, I will lend you a few old things.

letter, 07/07/1935, H.D. Skinner to Samuela Ariki, Thanks for the pearl-shell breast pendant you sent, which we returned, I am hoping to publish it later. Thank you also for the book of drawings of your collection, I am interested in the stone adzes and especially the stone fishhook, pearl-shell fishhook and stone fishing gods and fan handle. Mr Drury Low says you do not wish to sell them, but can you send them so I can have them drawn?

letter, 29/03/1935, H.D. Skinner to H.W. Seton-Karr, Thanks on behalf of the University Council for gifting two printed cards which are with the stone collections from Somali & East Africa you gifted. We are missing implements from much of Africa, so any help you can give us here is appreciated

letter, 15/10/1935, H.D. Skinner to J.K. Shaw, I am sorry to hear you couldn’t attend the examination, I have given you an aegrotat pass in terms.

letter, 15/08/1935, Johannes Andersen to H D Skinner, 2 references required for amulet paper, I have filled in the Edge-Partington one. I wish to add a citation for the Maori Art. As regards an index half a volume took me 3 months

letter, 11/10/1935, J.K. Shaw to H.D. Skinner, Sorry I missed the exam today due to a cold, please can I sit it next week?

letter, 26/09/1935, H.D. Skinner to A. Saunders, I am sending back the harpoon point you lent us for drawing. Unfortunately it is very frail and has broken several times, but has been mended and hopefully will reach you intact. Except for the hei tiki, I am interested I buying your pieces.

letter, 10/02/1935, J.L.Simcox to H.D. Skinner, I apologise for not writing sooner, and thank you for the list. I hope you have an interesting trip and when you returning I am hoping to have found a few more interesting things.

letter, 05/11/1935, H.D. Skinner to J.L.Simcox, In response to your letter asking for the numbers of the Journal of the Polynesian Society that will be of interest to you, I have enclosed an index compiled by Teviotdale. Please return my Moriori memoirs & I have papers on Maori harpoon-heads and classifying ground stone cutting tools in the works.

letter, 22/08/1935, H.D. Skinner to J.L.Simcox, I am glad you found the Moriori memoir interesting, Teviotdale will run through volumes of the journal and find ones of interest to you. Thank you for the sketches, the adze is similar to those of the Solomon Islands. The greenstone is likely a woodworking implement rather than an amulet.