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May 5, 2018

Moa Bird by Daniel Louis Munday (1867)

Photo: Estate of Harry Callahan
- courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Julius Haast stands among the skeletal remains he unearthed of several Moa Birds.   Haast was, by all accounts, a dashing figure in mid-19th century New Zealand.   The 6 ft. tall, robust and gregarious German geologist, stumbled (perhaps literally) upon the greatest collection of Moa bones, near the town of of Glenmark Station in 1866.
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