• Grave Robber: the story of Andreas Reischek

  • Nov 27 2016
  • Length: 21 mins
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Grave Robber: the story of Andreas Reischek

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  • In the 1880s Austrian naturalist and ethnographer Andreas Reischek stole four mummified Māori corpses and smuggled them out of the country so they could be displayed at a museum in Vienna. He also shot hundreds of native New Zealand birds to preserve them "for science".
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