Institutional Awards

Lot 1962    Day 2    Institutional Awards

Estimate $200
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(ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND), Sir Peter H.Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa) Memorial Medal (1880-1951), struck uniface in silver (49mm), by Bock (W.R.Bock, Wellington), reverse inscribed 'Urenui School/Dux 1983/Debra Venise Keegan'. Spotty obverse, extremely fine.

Te Rangi Hiroa, Sir Peter Buck, a pioneer New Zealand social scientist, qualified in medicine from the University of Otago in 1904. After twenty-two years of medical practice during which he made major contributions to Maori health, and then, after a brief period in Parliament, he embarked on a career in anthropology, attaining international distinction through his research on Maori and Pacific cultures. His appointment to the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, as Director, and to Yale University as a Professor of Anthropology was recognition of the esteem in which he was held.^^The Te Rangi Hiroa Medal was established by the Academy of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1996, with the support of Ngati Mutunga at Urenui, in memory of Sir Peter Buck KCMG MB ChB Hon MA Yale Hon DSc New Zealand Hon DSc Rochester Hon D Litt Hawaii Hon DSc Yale FRSNZ to recognise excellence in the social sciences. The medical anthropology category was added in 2006.^^Ex Mayer & Toye (Wellington) Archive, private purchase September 2006.