 Subjects -> MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES (Total: 56 journals)
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- South American terrestrial Gastropoda in the collection of the
Auckland War Memorial Museum
Abstract: Tuhinga 34: 57-73
DOI : 10.3897/tuhinga.34.98329
Authors : Rodrigo B. Salvador, Abraham S. H. Breure, Severine Hannam, Wilma M. Blom : The catalogued collection of South American terrestrial gastropods, including the Caribbean ABC islands and Trinidad & Tobago, of the Auckland War Memorial Museum (AM), New Zealand, is discussed here. In total, 264 specimen lots from South America were found in the AM collection, including eight type lots. Twelve of the specimens represent new geographic distribution data, including the first known precise locality for the species Bostryx luridus (L. Pfeiffer, 1863) and potentially for Drymaeus cf. waldoschmidti Parodiz, 1962 as well. The specimens of Lopesianus crenulatus Weyrauch, 1967 allowed for the revision of the monospecific genus Lopesianus Weyrauch, 1958, which is herein considered valid in the family Simpulopsidae. HTML XML PDF
PubDate: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 07:47:21 +020
- Augustus Hamilton’s fossil collection at the Museum of New Zealand
Te Papa Tongarewa
Abstract: Tuhinga 34: 47-56
DOI : 10.3897/tuhinga.34.97731
Authors : Melanie Ioane-Warren, Rodrigo B. Salvador, Karyne M. Rogers, Alan J. D. Tennyson : Augustus Hamilton (1853–1913) was a New Zealand ethnologist and naturalist who amassed a significant collection of fossils, mostly of birds, during his career. Today, those fossils are housed in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (NMNZ). While some fossils have been catalogued and integrated into the collection of the NMNZ, a large part remained unsorted and uncatalogued. The present study brings an integrated view of Hamilton’s collection at the NMNZ, highlighting the most significant fossils. In total, there are 3692 specimen lots collected by Hamilton in the NMNZ representing a large sample of taxa and a wide range of locations around Aotearoa New Zealand. Most fossils are of Holocene age and belong to birds. The collection includes type specimens, circa 250 specimen lots belonging to extinct species, and specimens belonging to otherwise poorly represented species in natural history collections. We hope that our study makes Hamilton’s fossils visible and more readily available for future research. HTML XML PDF
PubDate: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 11:40:02 +0200
- From farm to forest – 50 years of ecological transformation on Mana
Island, New Zealand
Abstract: Tuhinga 34: 1-46
DOI : 10.3897/tuhinga.34.98136
Authors : Colin M. Miskelly : Ecological surveys of Mana Island, Wellington, in 1972 and 1975 confirmed that house mice (Mus musculus) were the only pest mammals present, and resulted in nationally significant populations of Cook Strait giant weta (Deinacrida rugosa) and of two threatened lizard species being confirmed or discovered. Photographs taken in June 1972 were re-taken in June 2022, and are used to document social and ecological change on the island over this 50-year interval. Mana Island was farmed until 1986, and has been a conservation reserve administered by the Department of Conservation (DOC) since 1987. Mice reached plague numbers after farm stock were removed, and caused a population crash of McGregor’s skink (Oligosoma macgregori). Following mouse eradication in 1989–90, the island has been free of introduced mammals. A major revegetation effort since 1987 included planting of more than 443,000 trees and shrubs over about 36% of the 217 ha island. For the last two decades, conservation management of the island has largely followed a comprehensive ecological restoration plan that was published in 1999. The Friends of Mana Island was formed in 1998, and has taken the lead role in most conservation initiatives on the island since then, in partnership with Ngāti Toa Rangatira (mana whenua) and DOC. In addition to the revegetation programme, weed control, and recreation of a wetland, 22 animal species have been translocated to the island, and several bird species have colonised naturally. Conservation successes and failures are described, and research relevant to restoration ecology undertaken on the island is summarised. HTML XML PDF
PubDate: Mon, 6 Mar 2023 07:53:00 +0200
- Mid-20th century British ceramics in Aotearoa
Abstract: Tuhinga 33: 33-46
DOI : 10.3897/tuhinga.33.82337
Authors : Moira White : Over 1949–1951 the Association of Friends of the Otago Museum purchased approximately 100 pieces of contemporary ceramic work described by them at the time as representing the best current English potters – work they felt would have a lasting value. Muriel Rose, the Crafts and Industrial Design Officer at the British Council, made the selection on their behalf and arranged transport. The group included work from Bernard Leach, the Leach Pottery, Michael Cardew, Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie, Steven Sykes, Henry Hammond and Margaret Leach, as well as Wetheriggs Pottery and examples of work from commercial factories, particularly Wedgwood, who employed highly regarded graphic artists. In 1951, HD Skinner suggested to Robert Falla, director of the Dominion Museum, that they share this group. This paper examines the acquisition as a whole, its background, and the logistics of the division between the two institutions. HTML XML PDF
PubDate: Wed, 2 Nov 2022 14:00:29 +0200
- Gordon Crook and the Wolf-Man
Abstract: Tuhinga 33: 1-29
DOI : 10.3897/tuhinga.33.82325
Authors : Peter Stupples : Gordon Crook (1921–2011) became a significant Wellington artist after his arrival in Aotearoa, New Zealand in 1972. He produced tapestries, prints and banners. In the 1980s, he turned from celebratory public works to more introverted, private imagery, particularly after acquiring a copy of Muriel Gardiner’s The Wolf-Man and Sigmund Freud. In Freud’s analysis of Sergei Pankeev (The Wolf-Man), Crook discovered a set of ideas that enabled him to explore his own infantile neurosis, the result of childhood traumas and his psycho-sexual difficulties in human relationships. The result was a major series of works (1990–91) embracing tapestries and black-and-white prints, two sets of which are in the collection of Te Papa. This paper is based upon Crook’s correspondence over the period of the development of his turn towards more introverted subject matter, as well as a close study of the relationship of Crook’s images to the text of Gardiner’s book. HTML XML PDF
PubDate: Mon, 1 Aug 2022 15:00:11 +0300
- Review of Invisible: New Zealand’s history of excluding
Kiwi-Indians
Abstract: Tuhinga 33: 31-32
DOI : 10.3897/tuhinga.33.83716
Authors : Edwina Pio : HTML XML PDF
PubDate: Mon, 1 Aug 2022 07:56:03 +0300
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