… 49 of these ancestors were collected by Austrian taxidermist and grave-robber Andreas Reischek who spent 12 years in New Zealand from 1877 to 1889. – Piers Fuller, Dominion Post, Monday, October 3
The intrepid traveler
Reischek is in the news because the ancestral remains of Moriori and Maori he collected were repatriated on Sunday from Austria. He came to New Zealand for a couple of years to help out with setting up the Canterbury Museum. But he stayed for twelve.
