Hall, Edward C, active 1961

Date: [1960-1961]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-53

Description: Comprises report on quadrilateral adze with tang reduction; discovery of canoe hull (waka ama) of form requiring an outrigger attachment, Te Horo; timetable and background notes to tour of Hawke's Bay; notes; sketch of Napier harbour from 1870 map; drawing of small pataka and trig station profile; street map of Napier, with route noted; photgraphs of group (identified); extended genealogy, Tainui and Takitimu canoes to David Winterburn; the magnificent Winterburn adze; squat mere-like patu from Makurerua-Linton area; map, Horowhenua-Manawatu area showing localities of recent archaeological and Maori lore finds, the Makurerua-Linton adze and the Paretoa old burial place Also photographs of Adkin, map showing Maori sites and place-names of the Heretaunga Plains, ca 1850 (from Colenso); and photographs of the Makurerua-Linton patu Arrangement: Notebook no 52 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: [1962]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-59

Description: Comprises reports on the disinterment of native human skeletons at Paraparaumu Beach township from excavation of sand-dune formation near the post office (diagrams of skulls) (with map, profile and photographs); Te Ika-a-maru and Ohau bays area of western Wellington - further ethnological features and note on drift objects of this coast; groups of unusually- placed storage pits and a large type whakamate on the Kenakena coastal salient...Paraparaumu Beach (with map); memo of human skull, probably late tribal Maori age, from old fixed dunes immediately west of Te Horo; remarkable Waitaha-Ngatimamoe hybrid adze in blackstone from Tiakitahuna, Palmerston North Arrangement: Notebook no 58 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).