Story: Anthropology and archaeology

Paddles obtained on Cook's first voyage

Julien Crozet's Voyage

Sketches of a Māori kite and healing stone

Edward Shortland's map of Waikouaiti

'Sketches of ancient Maori life and history', 1894

William Henry Skinner at Te Koru pā, Ōakura, 1897

Elsdon Best and Tūtakangahau, 1896

Walter Mantell's sketch of the departure from Awamoa, 1852

'Moa-hunter' implements

Circular proposing the formation of the Polynesian Society, 1891

Leslie Adkin's photographs of archaeological finds, 1931–32

Recording a Māori speaker, 1923

H. D. Skinner and the Chatham Islands expedition, 1924

Peter Buck

Les Lockerbie and team embark for Hawksburn, Central Otago, 1955

Roger Duff and Jim Eyles at Wairau Bar in the 1940s

Jack Golson examining a fish hook

Training dig at the 1959 NZAA conference

Janet Davidson in Samoa, mid-1960s

Bruce Biggs in Papua New Guinea, around 1960

University of Auckland Department of Māori Studies staff, 1993

Aerial photograph of Pukaroro, Wairarapa

Archaeologists working on Chinese huts at Cromwell, around 1980

Archaeologists at Brunner coal mine, 1982

Isotope research on the people of Wairau Bar

Archaeologists working in Dunedin, 2012