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Moa bones

Moa bones
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Moa bones
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Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Collection
Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Description

The missionary and naturalist William Colenso published these drawings with an article entitled ‘An account of some enormous fossil bones, of an unknown species of the class aves, lately discovered in New Zealand’ in the Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science in 1846. The bones were presented to him by Māori at Waiapu on the East Coast. Colenso was one of many gentlemen scientists in New Zealand at the time – amateurs with an interest in a natural world very different from that of Europe.

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Date created
1 March 2009
Creator
William Colenso
Contributing partner
Alexander Turnbull Library
URL
https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/10950/moa-bones

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