Graverobber: the story of Andreas Reischek

Black Sheep - A podcast by RNZ - Thursdays

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In the 1880s Austrian naturalist and ethnographer Andreas Reischek stole four mummified Maori corpses and secretly smuggled them out of the country so they could be displayed at a museum in Vienna. He also shot hundreds of native New Zealand birds.

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