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Haurongo: Wiffen, Joan

Cutting out the fossils

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Cutting out the fossils

Joan Wiffen extracting fossils using a rock-cutting saw. Extracting a single specimen required up to 600 hours of work.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-129-Fossils-14/4-31 63

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

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/47106/cutting-out-the-fossils (accessed 6 June 2026).