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Sculpture

Stout-legged moa

Moa hakahaka, about 1.4 m at the back.

Funded

Paid for and drawn. Not built.

A pen-and-ink drawing of two stout-legged moa cut out in silhouette, each with its skeleton drawn inside, photographed on a dark ground.
Stout-legged moa — moa hakahaka.Trish Shirley

Where we are now

A drawing and a spot: a pair, the taller bird about 1.4 m at the back.

Why it is in the plan

A pair, because the male was about 40% smaller than the female.

In deep time

Euryapteryx curtus, moa hakahaka. Females stood up to 1.4 m at the back — smaller and chunkier than the eastern moa, with notably hefty legs.

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