McCully Hugh

Hugh S McCully 1878-1967

McCully was a Canterbury farmer and amateur archaeologist. His papers are about sites and finds in the area with a particular emphasis on stone tools. He also had a reputation as an inventor.

In the Canterbury Museum is a mōkihi (raft canoe) made from raupō. This mōkihi was made at Temuka in 1950 by Pita Paipeta of Arowhenua, assisted by Hugh McCully.

McCully guided T L Buick to the moa-hunter sites in the area and appears in the resulting book (Buick 1937), particularly chapter V.

McCully's collection was housed in a 'whare' in his back yard. The collection was sold and dispersed on his death, though recently a substantial component was presented to the South Canterbury Museum by the family of one of the purchasers (Samson, 2003:111,156-7).

Buick, T L 1937 The Moa-Hunters of New Zealand: Sportsman of the Stone Age. Thomas Avery, New Plymouth. Online

Samson, J. O. 2003 Cultures of collecting: Maori curio collecting in Murihiku, 1865-1975 : a dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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Bibliography

1941 Stone Tools Made and Used by The Maori. Suggested Method of their Manufacture, Journal of the Polynesian Society 50:185-210.

1943 The Term "Unfinished" as Applied to Adzes, Journal of the Polynesian Society 52:204-406.

1943 A Multiple-Edged Tool, Journal of the Polynesian Society 52:206-9.

1947 Stone Tools Made From Quarried Material, Journal of the Polynesian Society 56:55-57.

1948 Stone Tools. The Flake, Journal of the Polynesian Society 57:46-56.

1953 In Quest of Rauru, Journal of the Polynesian Society 62:410-411.