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Walter Mantell

Treasures from the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington

All images courtesy of Alexander Turnbull Library.

Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell, location unidentified, about 1865. Photograph probably by James Coutts Crawford. ATL ref: PA1-q-264-19-4

A page from Walter Mantell's 'Moa Journey', 1847. ATL ref: MS-1531

Walter Mantell's sketch of a moa in a fix, 1848, done in watercolour, grey wash and charcoal. ATL ref: E-281-q-047

Geraldine Jewsbury, about 1856-59, from the photo album of Walter Mantell. ATL ref: PA1-o-327

Mock moa hunt, Botanical Gardens, Dunedin, about 1904. Shows Peter Buck(?) left, and Koroneho Hemi Papakakura(?) in Maori costume, hunting a moa reconstructed from a skeleton by Augustus Hamilton (the then registrar of Otago University). Photographer unidentified. ATL ref: 1/2-056038-F

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