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Joan Wiffen and Don Haw

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Joan Wiffen and Don Haw

Joan Wiffen at the National Library in 2003 with Don Haw, who originally discovered the reptile bones while working as a geologist for BP Shell Todd in the 1950s. The painting is of Gideon Mantell, who described the first dinosaurs in England in the 1820s.

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Simon Nathan. 'Wiffen, Joan', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2018. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/46975/joan-wiffen-and-don-haw (accessed 7 June 2026).