Private Collections

Collections

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Private artefact collections are a feature of New Zealand archaeology right up until the present. Many of these were aquired by presentation or purchase and these are still ways of their accumulation today. In the past, when found Maori artefacts were personal property fossicking was a way of accumulation.

Sampson (2003) gives an insight into the motivations and behaviours of collectors who operated in Otago.

Many of these collections have found their way to musuems in whole, or in part after dispersal.

Some European artefact collections - particularly of bottles - have grown the same way. The advent of the protection of archaeological sites dating from before 1800 AD under the Historic Places Act has limited some sources, but found European objects are still finding their way to private collections.

This page is to highlight some of the important collections which are part of our historic heritage.

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Reference

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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Listing here does not preclude a future page dedicated to a collection.

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Willets Collection

Oldman Colleciton

Knapp Collection

George Grey Collection

Bollons Collection

Murdoch Collection

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Bramley Collection - A collection from the south head of the Manukau Harbour collected by the Bramley family while resident at Wattle Bay. The collection's strengths are archaic material and fishing sinkers. The collection was bequeathed to Auckland Museum.

Brambley, Mavis 1966. Sea Cockies of the Manukau. Reed.

Prickett, N. 1987. The Bramley collection of Maori artefacts. Auckland Museum. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 24: 1 -66.

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Collier Collection A collection made by the Collier family largely around Dunedin in the 1920s. The collection is in family ownership.

Harsant, W. 1986 The Collier collection: stone and bone artefacts from Otago. Archaeology in New Zealand 29(3):146-159.

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Okains Bay Musuem / Thacker Collection

Mair Collection

Wagener Collection