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Photograph of the Stockholm Quagga

Stockholm Quagga

Catalogue number : Mam Ex. 14

Sex: foetus

Locality: Cape Colony

Date of acquisition: 1775 Remarks on acquisition:  brought to Sweden by A. Sparrman

History of mount: original mount of straw; repairs with two hand-sized white leather patches might be of a later date.

Measurements:

head - body

1,93 m

tail

0,29 m

ear

0,15 m

hindfoot

0,43 m

shoulder height

1,18 m

State of preservation: fair, mane almost lost

Further material of same individual: -

References:  Renshaw (1904); Ridgeway (1909); Lonnberg (1910); Antonius (1931)

 



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