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| Description | Former ref: AL 1958/33
Documents relating to the donation of materials from New Zealand to the BM(NH) by Medd, I in 1966, including Maori stone axe, carved pumice, and egg-shaped chalk pebble
Letters between Kenneth P Oakley and Cecil M Bevan dated 1958, relating to a Māori skull obtained by H White Wickham, Natural History Museum specimen number 1958.30.10.1[?]
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