Cassowary - Capturing Nature Print Size:A2 with drawings of distinguishing features

with drawings of distinguishing features

although it is intended primarily to be used outdoors

This cultural practice is many thousands of years old and has been passed down through generations

frilled collar around its neck

4kg approx

Cassowary - Capturing Nature Print Size:A2 with drawings of distinguishing featuresA charming and evocative part of the Australian Museum's history, this is a photograph of the first cassowary in the AM collection. The bird was acquired from G Randall Johnson, who collected it near Rockingham Bay, Far North Queensland, in 1866. For a time it was believed to be a species distinct from the Casuarius australis shot and named in 1854 by naturalist Thomas Wall (who had perished before he could transport the skin). The new specimen was