Images from The Owl that Fell from the Sky - Stories of a Museum Curator by Brian Gill.
Published by Awa Press.
Barn owl. From A Dictionary of Birds by Alfred Newton:A & C. Black, London, 1893–96.
Barn owl
Albatross diorama. Built by Auckland Museum preparator, Leo Cappel;photograph by Krzysztof Pfeiffer, circa 2007.
Kaikoura moa egg. An early depiction drawn on stone by J. Erxleben;lithography by M. & N. Hanhart; from Memoirs onthe Extinct Wingless Birds of New Zealand (vol. 2) bySir Richard Owen: Van Voorst, London, 1879.
The Duke of Genoa’s falconet specimen. Auckland Museum; photograph by Brian Gill, 2011.
Rajah the elephant transformed for display, 1936. Auckland Museum Pictorial Collections, C23255
Mr Mackechnie’s Arctic group of musk oxen and polar bear. Auckland Museum; photograph by Fiona Kirkcaldie, 2011.
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