Harry Skinner (ethnologist)
Harry Skinner CBE DCM |
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Born | Henry Devenish Skinner 18 December 1886 New Plymouth, New Zealand |
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Dunedin, New Zealand |
Fields | Anthropology; ethnology |
Institutions | Otago Museum University of Otago Hocken Library |
Notable awards | Parker Memorial Prize Percy Smith Prize in Anthropology (1925) Hector Memorial Medal and Prize (1926) Andre Medal (1936) Honorary LittD Otago (1962) |
Relatives | William Skinner (father) |
Henry Devenish Skinner CBE DCM (18 December 1886 – 9 February 1978), known as Harry Skinner or H.D. Skinner, was a notable New Zealand soldier, ethnologist, university lecturer, museum curator and director, and librarian. The son of William Skinner, he was born in New Plymouth in 1886.[1]
Skinner received information on Māori house types and construction methods from Mere Harper.[2]
In the 1956 New Year Honours, Skinner was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services as director of Otago Museum and lecturer in anthropology at the University of Otago.[3]
The H.D. Skinner Annex of the Otago Museum, formerly the Dunedin North Post Office, was opened in August 2013, and named in honour of Skinner.[4][5] During his time at the museum, Skinner was responsible for adding more than 65,000 objects to the humanities collections, including purchasing a piece of HMS Bounty from one of Fletcher Christian's direct descendants.[6][7]
Skinner was one of 24,000 Anzac soldiers wounded at Gallipoli. In 2015, the Otago Museum opened the exhibition "Surviving Chunuk Bair: H. D. Skinner at Gallipoli'' using objects loaned by the Skinner family, including a sewing kit, medals, letters and photographs.[8]
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