File on Theo Schoon’s field maps and notes on the rock drawing and their sites
82 pages of typed notes and ink and pencil rock drawings sketches from 1946.

Theo Schoon catalogue list
Ten pages of 112 listed portraits, photographs and artworks relating to Theo Schoon. The catalogue includes works dating from 1945 to 1970 and include collections such as the Johnson Collection (Melbourne), Dolman Collection (Rotorua), Miller Collection (Rotorua), Boot Collection (Auckland), Auckland City Art Gallery, Moonen Collection (Kaukapakapa), New Vision Gallery Collection (Auckland), Andre Collection (Rotorua), Cohn/Vernon Collection (Auckland), Rotorua Art Gallery, Paris Collection (Wellington), Fletcher Collection (Auckland), Bidois Edwards Collection (Auckland) and Rosenberg Collection (Auckland).

G. B. Stevenson, Oamaru, ‘Rock Painting at Kokoamo, North Otago’
Four-page booklet extract from the Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol. 55 No. 3, September 1946.

G. B. Stevenson, Oamaru, ‘Waitaki Māori Paintings’
Seven-page booklet extract from the Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol. 52 No. 4, December 1943.

W.A. Taylor, ‘Pictographs and Moa Hunters’ (1949)
Twenty-two-page booklet containing six sections: Some General Observations, Early References, The Larger Deposits, Small Finds Important, Legends and Side Issues, Moa Eggs and Nature Drawings.

‘Australian Aboriginal Cave Paintings’, Exhibition Hall, Australia House Strand, London 1947, exhibition catalogue
including: Section 1: Drawings by members of the Frobenius Expedition, Section 2: Aboriginal Cave and Bark Paintings, Section 3: Prehistoric Rock Paintings. Each section includes text and a list detailing the works included in each section.

‘Māori Rock Drawings, The Theo Schoon Interpretations’, Robert McDougall Art Gallery (Christchurch), exhibition catalogue
including various writing relating to Theo Schoon and his work, images and a catalogue of the works included in the show.

A selection of newspaper clippings, magazines and articles relating to Rock paintings.

Internal Affairs correspondence, receipts, clippings etc relating to Theo Schoon’s rock drawings work.
Collected in eight bundles, seven of the cover pages are branded with red text and “Department of Internal Affairs” and typed black text describing the contents.

Provenance:
Part of the William Vance Archive of Correspondence, Publications, Articles and Photographs relating to the Theo Schoon Cave Art Project, purchased from Art+Object, 21 May 2014 auction, lot 249.