Recent Acquisitions

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Ice","Sort":18,"Date":"Thu, 19 Sep 2019","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EThis Antarctic sporting medal was given to Charles William Rawson Royds during the Discovery expedition.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDIxMF0/2019.57.1-Sporting-medal-01-1200.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsInkiLDg0XQ/2019.57.1-Sporting-medal-01-1200.jpg","Type":"human-history 2019","PageLink":"/collections/recent-acquisitions/sporting-on-the-ice/"},{"ID":846,"Title":"Black House Ants","Sort":17,"Date":"Mon, 08 Jul 2019","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECanterbury Museum has\u00a0acquired two specimens of the invasive black house ant (\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cem\u003EOchetellus glaber\u003C/em\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E), a species that only recently arrived in Christchurch.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDQyXQ/2019.46.1-Ochetellus-glaber-lateral-view-white.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsIngiLDcxXQ/2019.46.1-Ochetellus-glaber-lateral-view-white.jpg","Type":"natural-history 2019","PageLink":"/collections/recent-acquisitions/black-house-ants/"},{"ID":811,"Title":"Corriedale Wool Sample","Sort":16,"Date":"Mon, 17 Jun 2019","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EThis wool sample was collected from a Corriedale sheep that was part of Operation Bo-Peep,\u00a0\u003Cspan\u003Ea United Nations project that saw more than 1000\u00a0\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Elive sheep exported from New Zealand to China in 1947.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDNd/IMG-0191-1201.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsIngiLDEzNV0/IMG-0191-1201.jpg","Type":"human-history 2019","PageLink":"/collections/recent-acquisitions/corriedale-wool-sample/"},{"ID":777,"Title":"The Roger Award","Sort":15,"Date":"Fri, 24 May 2019","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Roger Award was given each year between 1997 and 2016 to the \u201cworst transnational corporation operating in Aotearoa New Zealand\u201d.\u00a0Unsurprisingly, none of the \"winners\" were interested in actually receiving the trophy!\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDIxMF0/2019.17.1-Roger-Trophy-side-1-1200.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsInkiLDg0XQ/2019.17.1-Roger-Trophy-side-1-1200.jpg","Type":"human-history 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It is part of Mollie Rodie Mackenzie's impressive clothing collection.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDg4XQ/2018.102.1-Red-Plait-Coat.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsInkiLDBd/2018.102.1-Red-Plait-Coat.jpg","Type":"human-history 2019","PageLink":"/collections/recent-acquisitions/mollie-rodie-mackenzies-jacket/"},{"ID":753,"Title":"Adored to Extinction","Sort":12,"Date":"Thu, 24 Jan 2019","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EJewellers turned the distinct beaks of female huia into brooches worn by fashionable P\u0101keh\u0101 women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDExMl0/brooch-sqr.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsInkiLDJd/brooch-sqr.jpg","Type":"human-history 2019","PageLink":"/collections/recent-acquisitions/adored-to-extinction/"},{"ID":737,"Title":"Sir Edmund Hillary's Kit Bag","Sort":11,"Date":"Tue, 04 Dec 2018","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECanterbury Museum has acquired a canvas kit bag used by Sir Edmund Hillary when he and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to summit Mt Everest.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDNd/EH623-181113-3000.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsIngiLDEzNV0/EH623-181113-3000.jpg","Type":"human-history 2018","PageLink":"/collections/recent-acquisitions/sir-edmund-hillarys-kit-bag/"},{"ID":655,"Title":"Anti-Nuclear Protest Banner","Sort":10,"Date":"Thu, 19 Jul 2018","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EA colourful banner used by New Zealanders at anti-nuclear protests around the world has been gifted to the Museum.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDEwXQ/Kate-Dewes-Right-leads-NZ-Australian-and-French-anti-nuclear-protestors-on-New-York-March-against-nukes-May-1989..jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsIngiLDIxXQ/Kate-Dewes-Right-leads-NZ-Australian-and-French-anti-nuclear-protestors-on-New-York-March-against-nukes-May-1989..jpg","Type":"human-history 2018","PageLink":"/collections/recent-acquisitions/anti-nuclear-protest-banner/"},{"ID":461,"Title":"Philip Temple Collection","Sort":9,"Date":"Tue, 19 Sep 2017","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EDuring his 1962\u201363 expedition to West New Guinea (now West Papua) Dr Philip Temple ONZM made the first ascent of Nemangkawi (the Carstensz Pyramide). While there Dr Temple acquired an outstanding collection of artefacts from the region including body adornments, carvings, textiles, musical instruments, tools and weapons.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDExMF0/IMG-9539-004-650.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsZmFsc2UsMF0/IMG-9539-004-650.jpg","Type":"human-history 2016","PageLink":"/collections/recent-acquisitions/philip-temple-collection/"},{"ID":440,"Title":"Theo Schoon Carved Gourd","Sort":8,"Date":"Mon, 21 Aug 2017","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EThis intricately-carved gourd is attributed to Theo Schoon. Thought to have been crafted during the late 1960s, the gourd displays rhythmic patterning reminiscent of Micronesian tattoo designs.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDExMF0/Gourd001-002-Square2.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsZmFsc2UsMF0/Gourd001-002-Square2.jpg","Type":"human-history 2017","PageLink":"/collections/recent-acquisitions/theo-schoon-carved-gourd/"},{"ID":314,"Title":"Tailed forest spiders","Sort":7,"Date":"Fri, 03 Mar 2017","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EFour specimens of the tailed forest spider (\u003Cem\u003EArachnura feredayi\u003C/em\u003E) have recently been added to the collection.\u00a0\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDExMF0/Arachnura-feredayi650px.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsZmFsc2UsMF0/Arachnura-feredayi650px.jpg","Type":"natural-history 2017","PageLink":"/collections/recent-acquisitions/tailed-forest-spiders/"},{"ID":68,"Title":"Ivan Mauger Collection","Sort":1,"Date":"Thu, 30 Jun 2016","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003ESix times World Individual Speedway Champion and the only man to win three consecutive individual world titles, Christchurch-born Ivan Mauger is recognised as the world\u2019s greatest speedway rider.\u00a0\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsIngiLDk1XQ/2016.114.1-Motorcycle-Triple-Crown-SpecialMR.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsIngiLDQwNV0/2016.114.1-Motorcycle-Triple-Crown-SpecialMR.jpg","Type":"human-history 2016","PageLink":"/collections/recent-acquisitions/ivan-mauger-collection/"},{"ID":70,"Title":"Bicycle: Johnson's Grocery ","Sort":2,"Date":"Fri, 01 Apr 2016","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EShoppers at Johnson\u2019s Grocery will recall seeing this grocery delivery bicycle parked outside the Colombo Street shop for years. Shop owner Colin Johnson always made sure to keep at least one tyre flat so it would be harder to steal. Thankfully no one ever tried.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDBd/2016.52.2-Johnsons-bicycle.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsIngiLDIxM10/2016.52.2-Johnsons-bicycle.jpg","Type":"human-history 2016","PageLink":"/collections/recent-acquisitions/bicycle-johnsons-grocery/"},{"ID":71,"Title":"Korowai","Sort":3,"Date":"Fri, 16 Oct 2015","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EThis vibrant chicken feather korowai was made by Pamela Wood for jazz musician Nick Nicholson (Ngai Tahu, Ngati Kahungunu).\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDM5XQ/2016.50.2-Cloak.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsIngiLDc2XQ/2016.50.2-Cloak.jpg","Type":"human-history 2015","PageLink":"/collections/recent-acquisitions/korowai/"},{"ID":73,"Title":"Artwork: Oh Deer, Who Will Lead Santa\u2019s Sleigh? ","Sort":4,"Date":"Wed, 30 Sep 2015","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EThis impressive coat rack by Hamish Southcott is made from hammered corrugated iron and copper cabling which came from a house damaged in the 2011 Canterbury earthquakes. Hamish often works with corrugated iron, so he decided to play with the juxtaposition of rough iron and beautiful copper with this work.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDk2XQ/2016.45.3-Oh-Deer-On-Display.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsInkiLDBd/2016.45.3-Oh-Deer-On-Display.jpg","Type":"human-history 2015","PageLink":"/collections/recent-acquisitions/artwork/"},{"ID":119,"Title":"Elmslie Sideboard","Sort":5,"Date":"Fri, 22 May 2015","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EMythical creatures prance and swim across this spectacularly-carved sideboard. This monumental piece of furniture was carved in Christchurch in about 1891 by a young woman called Jessie Mitchell Elmslie.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDQ1XQ/2015.61.3-Elmslie-Sideboard-On-Display.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsInkiLDBd/2015.61.3-Elmslie-Sideboard-On-Display.jpg","Type":"human-history 2016","PageLink":"/collections/recent-acquisitions/elmslie-sideboard/"},{"ID":194,"Title":"The Marples and Parker Collection ","Sort":6,"Date":"","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EAn exceptional collection of historic bird skeletons collected by Professor Thomas Jeffery Parker (1850-1897) and Professor Brian Marples (1907-1998) of the University of Otago was donated to the Museum in 2015.\u00a0\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDUwXQ/2016-41-2026-Yellow-eyed-penguin-skeleton-Marples.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsIngiLDYxXQ/2016-41-2026-Yellow-eyed-penguin-skeleton-Marples.jpg","Type":"natural-history 2016","PageLink":"/collections/recent-acquisitions/the-marples-and-parker-collection/"}]