Emma Hawkins: A Natural World

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 14. An assembled group of leg and foot bones from an extinct South Island Giant Moa (Dinornis robustus), New Zealand, extinct circa 1500 and possibly 1000 years old or earlier.

An assembled group of leg and foot bones from an extinct South Island Giant Moa (Dinornis robustus), New Zealand, extinct circa 1500 and possibly 1000 years old or earlier

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot Closed

January 19, 02:14 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

An assembled group of leg and foot bones from an extinct South Island Giant Moa (Dinornis robustus), New Zealand, extinct circa 1500 and possibly 1000 years old or earlier

comprising sixteen elements

largest bone 72cm. long, 17cm. wide

Prior to the arrival of humans, the giant Moa had an ecologically stable population in New Zealand for at least 40,000 years.