Kōrero: Ferns and lycophytes

Fern album (1 o 2)

Fern album

Colonial settlers sometimes sent collections of pressed ferns assembled into an album to their friends and relatives in Britain. This exquisite marquetry work by Anton Seuffert uses native timbers to illustrate a filmy fern and a maidenhair fern on an album cover.

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Reference: MA_I.006516

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Patrick Brownsey, 'Ferns and lycophytes - Ferns in New Zealand culture', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/10910/fern-album (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Patrick Brownsey, i tāngia i te 24 Sep 2007