Our biographer today is cultural and scientific historian Kate Hannah from Auckland University who has recently published a new entry in the New Zealand Dictionary of Biography about New Zealand botany sensation Nancy Adams.
Ramarama, Lophomyrtus bullata. Photo: Illustration: Nancy Adams / Te Papa
Kate joins me in the Auckland studio to dive into Nancy's life and look at the importance of botanical drawing in New Zealand.
Nancy Mary Adams, artist at the Dominion Museum, working on a painting featuring flowers and ferns. Photo: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper. Ref: EP/1959/2182-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23502578
This story was produced using archival audio from Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision.
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