Duffy Collection

Small finds tray in the Duffy collection in 1969

Duffy Collection - Ted Duffy lived in Paeroa and retired to Mount Maunganui. He worked for Railways and collected extensively on coastal sites from Waihi Beach to the eastern Coromandel, as well as elsewhere. The collection is mostly archaic material, including what looks like a bit of a rei puta, heaps of drillpoints, many adzes, moa bone fish hooks and tabs, needles, awls and others. It is an important assemblage.

Paeroa Museum holds about 600 items, which are currently on display, and Duffy’s notebook, recording what was found where. Tauranga Museum has a further 50 pieces in storage and Auckland Museum has about 150. (Info. courtesy John Coster, Graham Watton and Antoine Coffin)

There is also a brief article about the collection.

Reference Maori Artefacts in the Paeora Museum. Ohinemuri Regional History Journal 42, September 1998