Artist unknown :Moa with feet like an elephant. Dinornis elephantopus. Vol. I, page 32. [London, John Murray, 1859]

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Title

Artist unknown :Moa with feet like an elephant. Dinornis elephantopus. Vol. I, page 32. [London, John Murray, 1859]

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Collection

TAPUHI

Description

Shows the skeleton of a moa, known as the heavy-footed moa, against a landscape of mountains and headland, with a triangular-sailed waka in the middle distance. Vendor information is that the print is a page from an American publication. The bird's pose is similar to that in the photograph taken in London in 1855 by Roger Fenton. The engraving is a page removed from The story of New Zealand past and present - savage and civilised ... by Arthur Sanders Thomson (London, John Murray, 1859), ...

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Image

Date created

1870

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22902073

Related subjects

Thomson, Arthur Saunders, 1816-1860 / Moas / Skeleton / Waka

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