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Roger was educated at Christchurch Boys’ High School, where he was dux in 1930, and the University of Otago and Canterbury University College, completing a BA (1935) and an MA with first-class honours in education in 1936.
He started work at Canterbury Museum in 1938 and became its director ten years later. Duff excavated skeletons of moa, an extinct flightless bird, at Pyramid Valley in north Canterbury and at the Wairau Bar in Marlborough.
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Duff, Alan (1950– ), is a novelist, newspaper columnist, polemicist and cultural phenomenon. Son of scientist Gowan Duff and Kuia Hinau (of Ngāti Rangitihi and Tūwharetoa), and grandson of Oliver Duff, he was born and raised in a state housing area in Rotorua. After his parents separated when he was 10, Duff lived with a Māori uncle and aunt at Wha...
Readers of Duff's fiction often question how many of his characters and stories are based on his own experiences. Duff's memoir,Out of the Mist and the Steam (1999), may answer some of those questions. In 1991, Duff was awarded the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. In the same year, Once Were Warriors was awarded second place at the Goodman Field...
Alan Duff's profile on ANZLDuffy Books in Homes– The Alan Duff Charitable FoundationTwo of the five judges appointed by the Trust are ex-officio: the Warden of New College and a member of Duff Cooper’s family – originally Duff Cooper’s son, John Julius Norwich. He ran the prize for its first 33 years, and then passed it on to his daughter, Artemis.
Later he lived with another uncle, anthropologist Roger Duff, and went back to school at Christchurch Boys' High School. At 15 he was sentenced to a term in Waikeria Borstal for assault and breaking and entering.
Roger Duff (1912–1978) was appointed ethnologist at the museum in 1938. He went on to become director in 1948 and, like Haast, held this role until his death. Duff’s mentor was H.D. Skinner at the Otago Museum (see also White, Chapter 23, this volume) and many of his ideas built on Skinner’s earlier work.
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Jun 27, 2014 · But Harry’s thesis sank without trace, collecting dust on a shelf at the University of Otago library while he and his new wife Hillary moved to Tikitiki on the east coast of the North Island, where Harry taught at the Māori secondary school.
