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C1888
Huia (Male and Female)
Artist:
Johannes Gerard Keulemans (1842 - 1912)
The Huia’s distinctive white-tipped black tail feathers were often worn by Maori chiefs as a sign of their status. Such feathers were revered as taonga (treasures) by them. Now extinct. Common name Huia Binomial name Heteralocha acutirostris First described Gould … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Huia (Male and Female)
Date:
C1888
Artist:
Johannes Gerard Keulemans (1842 - 1912)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Lithograph printed in colour
Image Size:
205mm
x 275mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1888
Description:
The Huia’s distinctive white-tipped black tail feathers were often worn by Maori chiefs as a sign of their status. Such feathers were revered as taonga (treasures) by them.
Now extinct.
Common name Huia
Binomial name Heteralocha acutirostris
First described Gould 1837
Biography:
Johannes Gerard Keulemans (1842-1912)
Keulemans was a Dutch bird artist and illustrator.
He was born in Rotterdam and as a young man he collected animal specimens for museums such as the Natural History Museum in Leiden, whose director, Hermann Schlegel, encouraged Keulemans and sent him on the 1864 expedition to West Africa. In 1869, he was persuaded by Richard Bowdler Sharpe to illustrate his Monograph of the Alcedinidae, or Family of Kingfishers(1868-1871) and to move to England, where he lived for the rest of his life.
