Harry Skinner (ethnologist)

Harry Skinner
Born
Henry Devenish Skinner

(1886-12-18)18 December 1886
New Plymouth, New Zealand
Died9 February 1978(1978-02-09) (aged 91)
Dunedin, New Zealand
AwardsParker Memorial Prize
Percy Smith Medal (1925)
Hector Memorial Medal and Prize (1926)
Andre Medal (1936)
Honorary LittD Otago (1962)
Scientific career
FieldsAnthropology; ethnology
InstitutionsOtago Museum
University of Otago
Hocken Library
RelativesWilliam Skinner (father)
H.D. Skinner Annex of Otago Museum

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.