Skinner H D

Henry (Harry) Devenish Skinner 1886-1978

See Atholl Anderson's article on Skinner in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. DNZB

Festschrift: Anthropology in the South Seas Eds. J D Freeman and W R Geddes, Thomas Avery and Sons, New Plymouth. Freeman gives a memoir on Skinner as an introduction to the volume.

Roger Fyfe, 1989, An anthropologist at war, in Saying so doesn't make it so, Papers in honour of B Foss Leach, Edited D G Sutton, New Zealand Archaeological Association Monograph No. 17, - gives an account of his war service at Gallipoli.

Peter Gathercole's introductory chapter in H.D.Skinner, 1974, Comparitively speaking, Editors Peter Gathercole, Foss Leach and Helen Leach, University of Otago Press, is a longer appreciation. Many of Skinner's papers are reprinted in that volume.

The Royal Society operates a Skinner Fund which operates "to promote the study of the history, art, culture, physical and social anthropology of the Maori and other Polynesian peoples, particularly through the recording, survey, excavation and scientific study of prehistoric and historic sites in New Zealand and the islands of the South-west Pacific." Link

Obituary: Peter Gathercole 1979 Journal of the Polynesian Society 87:109-110.