Skinner H D

Henry Devinish Skinner 1886-1978

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

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.

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