Internal Affairs files relating to the administration of the Colonial/Dominion Museum

An Internal Affairs Department sub-series relating to the administration of the Colonial/Dominion Museum.
As the content of these files was deemed relevant to the Museum's ongoing research and activities these files were transferred, by National Archives to the Museum in 1959.
It was decided that it made sense to include this series as part of the Museum's own records rather than as a collected archive (which, technically, it probably is) as most users will perceive these records to be part of the Museum's organisational record.
This series consists of museum deposits, purchases, bequest and loan items, development of historical collections, staff expeditions, research papers, information relating to the functioning of the Maori Arts and Craft Board with an emphasis on the growth and development of the Maori collections.
Files in this series are:
• Annual report; 1913 – 1916
• Identifications; 1919 – 1922
• Collection of Moa bones - Wairarapa; 1920
• Kings certificate of discharge; 1918
• General file; 1913 – 1921
• Sunfish caught at Picton; 1919
• Military Badges; 1915 – 1918
• Maori Stone images - property of Mr A Hoby - return to New Plymouth Museum - plaster casts to be made of; 1924
• ; Act : Māori Arts and Crafts Board - School of Māori Art (establishment and location of); 1927 – 1931
• Māori Arts and Crafts Board - meetings of and agenda, general file; 1926 – 1931
• Moa bones - discovery of by Mr Daws - Moawhango - inspection, general file; 1930
• Loaning of Exhibits to British Empire Exhibition - protest, etc; 1923 – 1925
• Huia presentation of pair in glass case of Doctor AK Newman; 1922 – 1923
• Bottlenose Whale - Foxton Beach - examination of skeleton; 1921
• Māori Arts and Crafts Board - sign on stationery shop of Mr E. Pratt - confusion of with Board - protest; 1928
• Māori Canoe (Wanganui Museum exchanged articles for Teremoe; 1929 – 1930
• Māori Arts and Crafts Board - Rotorua Winter Show, exhibits for, offers of prizes; 1927
• Medal - diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria - presentation of to Museum by Mr B Reed; 1927
• F.G .Menke, New York - Maori, enquiry regarding early history of; 1922
• Māori Meeting House - Otaki - for report on by Government Architect; 1931
• Offer of Manuscript of Māori History by Major HP Tuniarangi - suggesting Mr Best should interview him; 1917
• Sunfish - Wellington wharf - purchase of and taking mould of; 1930
• Saunders Imlay, offer to sell painting by Barraud - of Maori  Chief Epuni; 1918
• Mrs W Mantell's collection - presentation; 1930
• E. Phillips Turner - Bird collection - property of late Doctor Fulton - suggested purchase of; 1926
• Cast of Archaeopteryx lithographica - offer to sell by RF Damon and Co London, purchase of; 1926
• Act, Māori  Arts and Crafts - (Regulations etc); 1927
• Sea chest of Captain Cook - property of Mr GE Playforth (England) - offer to sell; 1924
• G. Small, Helensville : Act, Māori  Arts and Crafts - School of Art - application for position as teacher; 1927
• Historical Telescope - offer to sell Mrs AC Walker; 1920
• Whale - Te Horo Beach - purchase of from A Bishop; 1931
• Chinese Court Robes - property of Mr S Falls, Auckland, purchase of; 1926
• Carved Wooden Tiller - Captain Cook's barge - presentation by PJ McLean, Greymouth; 1931 – 1932
• W Helms, Wellington, Maori , for information regarding - requesting interview with view to obtaining; 1917 – 1919
• Māori Arts and Crafts Board - suggested loan of carvings for Educational Purposes, H Hamilton; 1927
• Collection : birds - property of late Mr Septimus J Du Croz - presented to New Zealand Government; 1920 – 1923
• Discovery of Maori  Burial Cave on Mrs Bright's farm at Te Waiherere, Coromandel by Mrs SM Howell - enquiry, etc; 1926 – 1928
• New Guinea - curios from - Doctor Moorhouse to collect; 1916 – 1917
• Ambergris - purchase of from C.W.H. MacArthur; 1930
• Maori  canoe sternpost - property of Mr A Powell, Auckland - suggested purchase of; 1925
• Greenstone Adze - property of Mr N. MacPherson, purchase of; 1929
• Māori Arts and Crafts Board : Totara timbers - future supplies - safeguarding of for use of Board; 1930 – 1931
• Museum Auckland - stern posts of Māori War Canoes - forwarding of; 1927 – 1930
• Māori Carved canoe - presented by Lords Commissioners of Admiralty to Government for British Empire - suggested purchase of; 1925 – 1926
• Paintings of New Zealand Trees - property of F Richardson, purchase of; 1929
• A.T. Ngata (MP), Māori Ethnological Board - publications of - sale of under direction of Board - Committee set up to investigate scheme for; 1926
• Consul for France - Geological formations of New Zealand suggested exchange of specimens with Paris Museum; 1924 – 1925
• Birds - specimens on exhibit - suggested appointment of taxidermist; 1923 – 1926
• Porpoise Whale - stranded at Stewart Island - acquiring for Museum purposes; 1930 – 1931
• Bird skins - collection of Mr Youill - purchase of; 1924
• Kirk Herbarium Collection - presentation by Professor HB Kirk; 1931
• Māori Place names - list of and their meanings; 1926
• Dredging operations for marine specimens; 1919 – 1924
• Māori Arts and Crafts Board, Employment of SF Darragh (Greenstone Expert); 1927
• Collection of New Zealand birds offered for sale by Mrs Martin; 1919
• J.A. Thomson to investigate and report fever carrying mosquitoes in North Island; 1915 – 1921
• Hump-Back Whale stranded on beach at Levin - visit of Mr Oliver; 1921
• Blocks of New Zealand fishes - relative to Sir James Hector's book - as to disposal of; 1929
• War - Contour Relief models of Battlefields - offer to sell Dunthorne RG; 1920 – 1921
• Commission - Māori model villages - advisability as to establishment of; 1926 – 1929
• New Zealand War Medals; 1916 – 1929
• Specimen of Australian Woodwork by Governor General of Commonwealth; 1919
• Book - 'New Zealanders' - storage of in Museum by Tourist and Health resorts Department; 1916
• Greenstone Toki - Poutangata - property of Mr HT Norman, suggested purchase of; 1924
• E.. Loff, Wellington - petrified bird's nest - purchase of; 1930
• Maori  Carved staff - property of Mr H Stowell - suggested purchase of; 1925
• K. Johnson, Dunedin : Act, Maori  Arts and Crafts - application for position as teacher; 1927
• Collection of Mr F Larsen - sale of - proposal to purchase part of; 1919
• Solomon Island paddles etc - property of C Stevens, Wellington - purchase of; 1928
• Entomological Collection - inspection of, complaint re absence of attendant in charge; 1921 – 1922
• Collections of books and coins - presentation of late Canon AWH Compton; 1928
• Act : Maori  Arts and Crafts Board - estimates for; 1927 – 1931
• Sections of original wooden waterpipes unearthed in Baker and Oxford stations; 1921 – 1925
• Irish currency and coins - set of - presentation of Museum; 1929 – 1932
• Sunfish caught at Napier - visit to for purpose of detailed description; 1923
• Dr P.H. Buck, Auckland Maori  - collection of records - suggested Ethnographical Expedition to North Auckland peninsula; 1922
• Casts of Maori  Feather boxes; 1919
• Feather mat - property of W.H. Gill, Melbourne, suggested purchase of; 1926
• H.R.H. Balneavis : Maori  - suggested catalogue of Maori  and Polynesian works in Turnbull and Museum libraries - preparation and printing of; 1923 – 1924
• Dominion Museum insanitary conditions; 1913 – 1915
• Purchasing and collecting of specimens meeting of sub committee of Science and Art Board; 1916 – 1923
• Maori  Arts and Crafts - carved furniture etc application for - Carved Church Building - Wairoa, KJ Harawira, Waitara; 1930 – 1931
• Fijian clubs - property of DH McKenzie, Takapuna - suggested purchase of; 1927
• Jade necklaces supplied to by E.J. Hadfield; 1916
• Shell Collection - offer to sell - Mrs Batham; 1919
• High Commissioner, Liverpool (free public) specimens for - collection of by E Bostock; 1929 – 1930
• Museum and Art Gallery - Board of Trustees, seal for; 1930 – 1931
• Maori  Arts and Crafts Board - Appointment of Instructor - general file; 1929
• Mr N. Borchardt's offer to sell his collection of Minerals to New Zealand Government for 500 pounds; 1915
• Maori  canoe - property of Mr C Webbey, Mahakapawa, purchase of; 1927 – 1928
• Solomon Islands and Fiji weapons - property of Mrs Ford - purchase of; 1921
• Old parchment legal documents - presented to various New Zealand Museums - property of HH Bothamley (London); 1920 – 1921
• Shell collection - property of HL Browne, Karori - purchase of; 1928
• Swordfish - purchase of from J Boyd, Napier; 1920
• H. Mete-Kingi, Wanganui : Maori  Arts and Crafts Board, Embellishing of Moutoa Gardens Wanganui with carvings, etc application for grant; 1929
• Messrs McGregor Wright - offer to sell negotiations of prominent early Colonists; 1918
• Exhibit showing Mendelian inheritance in Fowls - property of E. Purves and Co, England - purchase of; 1926 – 1927
• Erection of New buildings, site and government assistance - general file; 1928 – 1930
• Sketches of old Maori  tattoo designs offered by Major General Robley; 1896 – 1931
• Kiwi cloak - property of G Bayley, purchase of; 1930
• Maori  Adzes - property of a client of CW Tanner, Wellington - offer to sell; 1926
• Penguins - specimens (skins) loaning of to National Museum, Melbourne; 1923
• Royal Standard Flag - suggested purchase; 1927
• Atlantic Salmon - acclimatisation of in Waiau River; 1921 – 1930
• Cabinet - property of BC Aston - purchase of; 1921
• Picture of 'Hillside' - House of late Captain Cargill, Dunedin - presentation to Museum; 1925
• Hugh Munro offering to sell moa bones; 1917
• Collection of Maori  Artefacts - property of Mr A Sargison (Wellington) - for purchase of; 1924
• Model of Rotorua District - property of Geological Survey Department - exhibiting of; 1927
• Palaeolithic implements - property of FE Freeman, Wellington - offer to sell; 1928
• Maori  curios - property of AJ Knocks, Otaki, purchase of; 1925
• Fossils - taken on loan by DG Lillie, Ship Biologist to British Antarctic Expedition, return of; 1918 – 1922
• Maori  Arts and Crafts Board - requisitions, general file; 1927 – 1931
• National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum - Trustees meetings of, etc; 1930 – 1932
• E.M. Danneferd, Rotorua - Maori  curios - suggested purchase of; 1925
• Entomological Specimens - Ohakune - visit to; 1920
• Collection of Maori  and South Sea Island curios owned by Mr Kronfeld offer to sell for 600 pounds; 1917
• American Museum of Natural History - suggested ornithological expedition to Cook Islands; 1920
• Edge Partington Album - property of H Hamilton, purchase of; 1929
• Māori cloak stolen during visit of American fleet - claimed by George Graham; 1922
• Miss F Birch offering Māori Carved Wood door for sale to Government for £100; 1916
• Fijian curios - property of WA Miller of Suva - purchase of; 1920
• Fish Collections - Mr Phillips trip on trawlers in Napier; 1917
• Specimens of decayed oak removed from roof - Westminster Hall; 1919
• Whaling boat - property of R Love, Picton - presentation to Museum; 1930
• Moa skeleton found by Mr Kean at Wairoa - inspection; 1925 – 1926
• High Commissioner : Māori  - carved head lintel - found at Pukepoto enquiry; 1923 -1925
• T. Heberley, Petone : Act - Māori, Arts and Crafts - application for appointment as teacher of; 1926
• Ancient flints - collection of Doctor Hauseler - purchase of; 1924
• 'Petrified man' found at Wanganui - purchase of for Museum; 1925 – 1926
• Theft of stone club - enquiry; 1921 – 1922
• Birds including Huia - property of Mr Hawk, Wellington - purchase of; 1926
• Maori  mat - property of FHB Wilson, purchase of; 1926
• Museums - suggestion relating to the relationship of,  to Imperial Problems; 1916 – 1917
• Specimens of stuffed New Zealand Birds - offer to purchase - Pukekohe Technical High School; 1924 – 1925
• F. Vercamer, Kaitaia - Act, Maori  Arts and Crafts - application for assistance as regards tools, etc for teaching of; 1926 – 1927
• Fern Specimens - purchase of from GD Bull on behalf of Mrs Nader; 1919
• Māori Arts and Crafts Board - balance sheet - preparation of; 1928 – 1929
• H.R.H. Balneavis, Wellington : Act, Māori Arts and Crafts Board - grant, Te Aute College Memorial Hall - purchase of Decorative Works etc; 1927 – 1930
• Specimens and collections, etc - report of Doctor AW Hill (Director of Kew Gardens); 1928
• Publications 'Hooker's Flora Novae Zealandiae', property of Mrs Burton (Christchurch), suggested purchase of; 1924
• Paintings - restoration of; 1913 – 1917
• Purchase of Ethnological specimens from Mrs Hutchins; 1919
• Māori Arts and Crafts Board - Māori Meeting House at Ngaruawahia - decorative carvings for - supply of; 1929
• Māori Hei Tiki - property of Tremaynes Ltd, Petone - purchase of; 1929
• Collection of paintings and drawings of New Zealand and Tasmanian fishes - property of Mrs FC Clarke, purchase of; 1921
• E. Hamilton, Rotorua : Act, Māori Arts and Crafts Board - accommodation for; 1927
• Kiwi feather cloak - property of TA Pitama - purchase of; 1926
• Museum - Director of - appointment; 1913 – 1914
• Māori  canoe - Hokio Beach - report and inspection of; 1925
• Staff arrangements - creation of position - Curator of exhibits; 1918 – 1926
• Moth - property of Dr W Watt, Dunedin - purchase of; 1927
• Act - Maori , Arts and Crafts - establishment of Board etc; 1926 – 1929
• Māori  relics - an excavation containing incised Māori designs, found at Murapara, for investigation; 1925
• A.C. Cooke (Takapuna), Pointed Sticks (spears) found at Hatuma - presentation; 1931
• Māori  - Polynesian Society's Manuscript and Library - transfer to Wellington; 1924
• Library of late Mr TF Cheeseman - suggested purchase of; 1924
• Maori  Hei Tiki - property of MG Reeve, purchase of; 1930
• Moa bones - discovery on property of E Phillips - Awamarino; 1932
• Carved Māori Ornament Box - property of Miss Jean Cardno, Auckland - purchase; 1928
• Marine specimens for Royal College of Surgeons; 1913 – 1915
• Erection of New buildings, site and government assistance - general file; 1924 – 1927
• Australian Association for the Advancement of Science : Maori  - Ethnological Observations of primitive peoples - investigation of selected Pacific peoples; 1923 – 1931
• A.M. Pritchard, Napier Te Kooti's Redoubt, carved cornerpoles - suggested removal to Dominion Museum; 1931 – 1932
• Exhibition of Swainson collection of pictures presented to Government by Mrs Turton (blank)
• Offer to sell Māori and South Sea Island portraits by Messrs Angus and Robertson of Sydney; 1919
• R. Hayward, Thames : Māori  - Māori  War Films Ltd - taking of films of early Maori  Wars, etc - application for loan of uniforms, rifles etc; 1924
• Māori Artefacts for deposit, Mrs Pope; 1920
• Banks and Solanders Manuscript, 'Primitive Florae Novae Zealandise', copying of; 1929
• Pencil Sketches of late William Swainson - property of Mrs M Glassford - offer to sell; 1920 – 1921
• V.J. Crequer, Nelson : Māori , request to collect information, data, etc on Māori  Anthropology; 1920
• Erection of New buildings, site and government assistance - general file; 1912 – 1920
• M. Jukes, Vancouver : Māori  - Ethnological Research - information for British Israel Association of Canada; 1924
• Discovery of Māori  Burial Cave on Mrs Bright's farm at Te Waiherere, Coromandel by Mrs SM Howell - enquiry, etc; 1925 – 1928
• Clubs - collection of Captain J Ogilvie, property of E Patterson - purchase of; 1930 – 1931
• Watercolour Paintings of New Zealand in possession of Mr F Delman Williamson by Sergeant Williams; 1919 – 1920
• Engraving of early Canterbury by E Norman - presentation by AW Selfe; 1932
• A. Reischek, Vienna - unpublished works of Doctor Reischek and various articles -offer to sell; 1920 – 1926
• Stranded strap-toothed whale at Paramata - obtaining for Museum - expenditure; 1924
• Articles on deposit; 1913 – 1915
• Scottish books, gift of Old by Handyside Mr Hugh; 1916
• Wragge Collection of Natural History Geological and Ethnographical specimens; 1916 – 1917
• H.R. MacKenzie, Maori  curios - collection of Mr Morgan's - offer to sell to New Zealand Government; 1921
• 17th Century embroidered curtain and other antiques - presentation by Misses Cath Grant and Agnes Matthews; 1916
• Presentation of Maori  curios by Mrs Lavallin-Puxle, property of Lord Plunket; 1922
• W.F. Gordon - carpet snake - presentation to Museum; 1925
• Publications - application for Board of Maori  Arts and Crafts; 1930
• Dr Thomson to report on effect of iron or other pyrites in the marble being used for new Parliamentary Buildings; 1916
• Museum collecting expeditions - visit of officers’ to various Districts - general file; 1925 – 1932
• Bows and Arrows - property of E. Penny, purchase of; 1926
• Maori  Arts and Crafts Board - houses for students, erection of; 1930
• Collection of West Africa curios, property of Mr WA Burton, Hastings, purchase of; 1924
• J. Barlow, Wanganui : Act, Maori  Arts and Crafts Board - application for employment as teacher etc; 1927
• Maori  Casts - statuettes at entrance of Government Buildings, Wellington - application for loan to make casts; 1930 – 1931
• Maori  articles - property of Doctor Beard, Masterton - purchase of; 1925
• Professor McBrown : Maori  Arts and Crafts photographs - application on behalf of Signor Imbelloni of Argentine; 1927 – 1930
• Foreign and New Zealand Shells - property of A.L. Haylock, Wellington - offer to sell; 1928
• New Zealand Bird Collection - property of H. Drew, Wanganui - suggested purchase of; 1929; Dominion Museum
• Specimens of Yellow eel - property of L.S. Mackie, Hawera - suggested purchase of; 1927
• Maori  mats - property of Mr A.R. Bryce, Te Kuiti - suggested purchase of; 1925
• Gordon Historical Collection - purchase of; 1915 – 1917
• Collection of Maori  curios, framed photographs and books - presentation by Mrs Russell; 1920 – 1921
• Purchase of specimens at Bethunes sale of Curios from the Mills Estate; 1916 – 1917
• Bequest by Mrs EH Blair (formerly Mrs Watt); 1917 – 1918
• Purchase of Maori  carvings - property of W.G. Foster; 1920
• Shell collection (Mollusca) property of Colonel RW Tate - presentation of; 1923 – 1925
• Maori  - collection of information re visit of Mr E Best and Captain Pitt Rivers to Wanganui; 1923
• H.H. Travers, Herbarium; 1915 – 1926
• W.F. Gordon, New Plymouth - photographs - presentation to Museum; 1924
• Collection of Historical matter - Mr Elsdon Best's visit to Wanganui River; 1916
• Natural History specimens offered for sale by H.H. Travers - general file re purchasing of H.H. Travers; 1919 – 1925
• H.H .Travers - Chatham Islands Moriori (artefacts) - offer to sell; 1919
• Gold cup presented by Japanese Government; 1906 – 1924
• Samoan Adzes - purchase from JB Fleck; 29 March 1920; Fleck, James
• Maori  House 'Matatua' stored in London - exhibiting at British Empire Exhibition and possible return to Dominion Museum; 1880 – 1969
• Historical Collections referring to the War; 1915 – 1922
• Collection of Maori  artefacts - property of Miss B.M. Howes, Waikotupu, purchase of; 1924
• Memorial Paintings in connection with the War; 1918 – 1944
• Donation - photographs and diagrams of European and other Art Galleries and Museums – S. Hurst Seager; 1929