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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
National Museum of New Zealand Records
Author: National Museum of New Zealand, 1982/83
Author: National Museum of New ZealandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
New Zealand National Bibliography
Author: Catalogue of Accessioned Publications
Author: World Data Center A--OceanographyPublisher:
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Category : Oceanography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Bulletin of the National Museum of New Zealand
Author: Carved Histories
Author: Roger NeichPublisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 9781869402570
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
This comprehensive guide examines the personal histories, roles, and personalities that played into the traditional cultural art of carving. It also traces the influence of European patronage and the ensuing tourist trade upon this art form, as many Maori carvers began styling and catering their product to meet their clients’ aesthetic desires. Included is a discussion of the establishment of the government-sponsored Rotorua School of Maori Art in 1928, which appointed as the main tutor Eramiha Kapua, a Ngati Tarawhai carver, thus helping his own traditional tribal art to make the transition into a modern “national” art.
New Zealand Journal of Zoology
Author: New Zealand Journal of Zoology
Author: The Lost World of the Moa
Author: T. H. WorthyPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253340344
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
An investigation of the rich and unusual fauna of prehistoric New Zealand, telling of one of the most dramatic extinctions of modern times. The moa, a giant flightless bird, was among the animals lost, the authors summarize what is known about the bird, reconstructing its life and ecology.
Extinct Birds
Author: Julian P. HumePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472937465
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
A comprehensive review of the hundreds of bird species that have become extinct over the last 1,000 years of habitat degradation, over-hunting and rat introduction. Extinct Birds has become the standard text on this subject, covering both familiar icons of extinction as well as more obscure birds, some known from just one specimen or from travellers' tales. This second edition is expanded to include dozens of new species, as more are constantly added to the list, either through extinction or through new subfossil discoveries. The book is the result of decades of research into literature and museum drawers, as well as caves and subfossil deposits, which often reveal birds long-gone that disappeared without ever being recorded by scientists while they lived. From Great Auks, Carolina Parakeets and Dodos to the amazing yet almost completely vanished bird radiations of Hawaii and New Zealand via rafts of extinction in the Pacific and elsewhere, this book is both a sumptuous reference and astounding testament to humanity's devastating impact on wildlife.