Maori Ethnology - Collector Files | Collections Online - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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NameMaori Ethnology - Collector Files

ProductionDominion Museum; creating agency; 1905-1973
National Museum of New Zealand; creating agency; 1973-1980

Classificationfiles, correspondence

Materialspaper, ink

Materials SummaryMainly loose papers in folders

Registration NumberMU000412

Overview

These original documents were found interspersed in the ethnological collectors files housed with the Maori accession records. Copies of each document have been left in the Maori collectors files held in the department.

Most files consist of ethnological collection inventories, related correspondence, notebooks and other material related to the particular collection.

Collection information files are:

• F.O. Peat Collection; circa 1930
• Captain J. Bollons; circa 1936
• J. Kinsey Collection; 1936 – 1954
• W. Buller Collection; 1895 - 1898; Dominion Museum/National Museum
• W. Buller Collection; Dominion Museum/National Museum
• A.J. Black Collection; circa 1940 – 1960
• A. Hamilton Collection; circa 1913
• E.W. Petherick Collection (Formerly Newtown Museum); 1924 - 1964; Dominion Museum/National Museum
• L.S. Mackie Collection; circa 1927 – 1943
• H. Fildes; 1937
• Denton Collection of Ethnographical Specimens; circa 1943; Dominion Museum/National Museum
• J. Handley Collection of Maori Antiquities; 1905 - 1908; Dominion Museum/National Museum
• K.A. Webster File A; circa 1950 – 1980
• K.A. Webster File B; circa 1950 - 1980