Blue ducks

Maker
Guthrie-Smith, William Herbert
Current rights
Public Domain
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Object detail

About this object
A photograph of four whio or blue ducks (Hymenolanimus malacorhynchos) thought to have been taken at Tutira Station in the 1920s. The birds float on a stream or pond. Ferns grow on the bank beside the watercourse.

The photograph is mounted in an album titled: Photographs of birds on Tutira Station.

Photographer, Herbert Guthrie-Smith.
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Black and white photograph mounted with photo corners in an album.
Measurements
Height x Width: 112 x 153mm
Height x Width: 178 x 233mm
Signature/Inscription
Blue Ducks, Inscription, Handwritten
Subject period
Caption
Collection of Hawke's Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Tā-ū-rangi, 17097
Credit Line
gifted by Ashley Cunningham
Other number(s)
m91/16, 17097, Album 38a, 85545

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