Basle Quagga

Catalogue number : 897

Sex: female

Locality: received from Shilow/Whittlesea, Eastern Cape Province

Date of acquisition: 1862/63

History of mount: re-mounted in 1929 by dermo-sculptor G. Ruprecht

Desciption of striking features:

Measurements:

head - body	2,14 m
tail	0,38 m
ear	0,15 m
hindfoot	0,47 m
shoulder height	1,20 m

State of preservation: good

Further material of same individual: skull (No. 2860) and skeleton parts (No. 8099, 10304) in collection

Remarks:

References: Ridgeway (1909); Roux (1910); Griffini (1913); Antonius (1931)

 

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