EditorialNorthern cassowary, Casuarius unappendiculatus, and extinct dodo, Raphus cucullatus. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History, Augsburg, Germany, 1794. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian cle...
EditorialSouthern cassowary, Casuarius casuarius (vulnerable), and dodo, Raphus cucullatus (extinct). Handcoloured lithograph by Bretzing from an illustration by Ludwig Meyer from Friedrich Philipp Wilmsen's Handbook of Natural History for Children, Berlin, Ame...
Editorialtile field, Anonymous, first half 17th century, tin glaze, earthenware, With frame: 11.7 x 22.6 x 3cm (117 x 226 x 30mm), Tile: 11.4 x 11.4 x 1.4cm (114 x 114 x 14mm), cassowary, fox, northern netherlands, Tile field of two tiles (one by two) of earthe...
Editorialwall tile, Anonymous, first half of 17th century, tin glaze, earthenware, General: 13 x 13 x 1.7cm (130 x 130 x 17mm), bird, northern Netherlands, Wall tile of earthenware covered with white tin glaze. Multicolored painted in blue, green, yellow and or...
EditorialMask (Buk, Krar, or Kara), Torres Strait Islander, mid to late 19th century, Australia, Mabuiag Island, Queensland, Torres Strait, Torres Strait Islander, Turtle shell, wood, cassowary feathers, fiber, resin, shell, paint, H. 21 1/2 x W. 25 x D. 22 3/4...
EditorialJohann Zillinger feeds a grape to a young cassowary, one of the birds he most prizes, at his home in Weiden an der March, Austria, Sept. 10, 2020. (Marylise Vigneau/The New York Times)
EditorialNorthern cassowary, Casuarius unappendiculatus, and extinct dodo, Raphus cucullatus. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History, Augsburg, Germany, 1794. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian cle...
EditorialEgg of a cassowary from the V.O.C. ship the 'Witte Leeuw', Egg of a cassowary from the V.O.C. ship the 'Witte Leeuw'. Large egg with a gray-white bowl, St. Helena, Dutch East India Company, southeast Asia, before 1613, egg (material), h 15 cm ? d 12.5 cm.
EditorialEgg of a cassowary from V.O.C. ship the 'Witte Leeuw', Egg of a cassowary from V.O.C. ship the 'Witte Leeuw'. Large egg with gray-white shell and black spots, Saint Helena, Dutch East India Company, southeast Asia, before 1613, egg (material), h 15.6 c...
EditorialCasuarius papuanus, Print, Cassowary, Cassowaries, genus Casuarius, are ratites (flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bone) that are native to the tropical forests of New Guinea (Papua New Guinea and Indonesia), East Nusa Tenggara, the Malu...
EditorialSouthern Cassowary, Casuarius casuarius. Date/Period: 1850. Image. Watercolour on paper Watercolour on paper. Height: 860 mm (33.85 in); Width: 680 mm (26.77 in).
EditorialOstrich c, Struthio camelus, great bustard a, Otis tarda, southern cassowary b, Casuarius casuarius, and greater rhea d, Rhea americana. Chromolithograph from Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's Natural History (Naturgeschichte), Schreiber, Munich, 1886.
EditorialSouthern cassowary, Casuarius casuarius (Casuarius galeatus). Handcolored engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1849.
EditorialSouthern Cassowary, Casuarius casuarius. Date/Period: 1850. Image. Watercolour on paper Watercolour on paper. Height: 860 mm (33.85 in); Width: 680 mm (26.77 in).
EditorialBird Head, Date unknown, Papua New Guinea, Morobe province, Morobe province, Stone, pigment, H. 4 1/2 x W. 2 x D. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 x 5.1 x 11.4 cm), Stone-Sculpture, Unearthed in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea, this ancient stone image may represen...
EditorialOstrich c, Struthio camelus, great bustard a, Otis tarda, southern cassowary b, Casuarius casuarius, and greater rhea d, Rhea americana. Chromolithograph from Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's Natural History (Naturgeschichte), Schreiber, Munich, 1886.
EditorialSouthern cassowary, Casuarius casuarius (Casuarius galeatus). Handcolored engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1849.
EditorialDodo, Raptus cucullatus (extinct), ostrich, Struthio camelus, and cassowary, Casuarius casuarius (vulnerable). Steel engraving by F. Kearney from Oliver Goldsmith's "History of the Earth and Animated Nature," Fullerton, Edinburgh, 1835.
EditorialOstrich, Struthio camelus, and northern cassowary, Casuarius unappendiculatus (vulnerable). Handcoloured engraving on steel by Fournier after a drawing by Edouard Travies from Richard's "New Edition of the Complete Works of Buffon," Pourrat Freres, Par...
EditorialSouthern cassowary, Casuarius casuarius (vulnerable), and dodo, Raphus cucullatus (extinct). Handcoloured lithograph by Bretzing from an illustration by Ludwig Meyer from Friedrich Philipp Wilmsen's Handbook of Natural History for Children, Berlin, Ame...