https://doi.org/10.32912/ram.2023
![Chisels, gouges and adzes manufactured from fine-grained basalt. From Auckland Museum’s Pitcairn Island stone tool assemblage. Upper row: Chisels and gouges 31214.1, 28881.2, 30141.1, 2019.x.58, 28398.1, 28445.1 and 28324. Lower row: Adzes 24360.1, 17016.1, 28890 and 32014.6. Collection of Auckland Museum.]()
Chisels, gouges and adzes manufactured from fine-grained basalt. From Auckland Museum’s Pitcairn Island stone tool assemblage. Upper row: Chisels and gouges 31214.1, 28881.2, 30141.1, 2019.x.58, 28398.1, 28445.1 and 28324. Lower row: Adzes 24360.1, 17016.1, 28890 and 32014.6. Collection of Auckland Museum.
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Our 2023 volume includes articles on the Auckland War Memorial Museum collection of stone tools from Pitcairn Island, Southeast Polynesia, Dr Ezra Newton Drier and his collection of New Zealand Mollusca and Ferdinand Hochstetter's missing rocks.
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- Dr Ezra Newton Drier (1871–1942) and his collection of New Zealand Mollusca
- In 2014, the Drier Collection of New Zealand molluscs, comprising 4,000–5,000 lots, was transferred from Museum of Vancouver to Auckland Museum. This shell collection is thought to have been assembled between 1926 and 1929 by Dr Ezra Newton Drier, who came to New Zealand in 1916 as the surgeon aboard a troop ship.
- Last updated on: 1 Aug 2023 | File Size: 2.9 MB
- Hochstetter's missing rocks – the Kirk to Haast letter, 1869
- In 1859 Ferdinand Hochstetter (1829–1884) donated geological specimens from his work in the Auckland Province to the Auckland Museum. A short letter from Thomas Kirk to Julius Haast in 1869 inquiring about the specimens gives us a clear insight into the perilous state of the fledgling Auckland Museum 17 years after its formation in 1852 and 10 years after Hochstetter had left New
Zealand.
- Last updated on: 15 Aug 2023 | File Size: 2.4 MB
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Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira holds approximately 20,000 stone tools from Pitcairn Island. Acquired in the 1930s–1950s it is the largest museum-held collection of tools from the island.
Read moreIn 2014, the Drier Collection of New Zealand molluscs, comprising 4,000–5,000 lots, was transferred from Museum of Vancouver to Auckland Museum. This shell collection is thought to have been assembled between 1926 and 1929 by Dr Ezra Newton Drier, who came to New Zealand in 1916 as the surgeon aboard a troop ship.
Read moreIn 1859 Ferdinand Hochstetter (1829–1884) donated geological specimens from his work in the Auckland Province to the Auckland Museum. A short letter from Thomas Kirk to Julius Haast in 1869 inquiring about the specimens gives us a clear insight into the perilous state of the fledgling Auckland Museum 17 years after its formation in 1852 and 10 years after Hochstetter had left New Zealand.
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