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Accession No 1898.156
Name/Title BARREL ORGAN; WILLIAMS BARREL ORGAN
Primary Maker Buckingham, Alexander (active 1821-1828)
Primary Prod Date 1829
Primary Prod Period 19th century
Primary Prod Place London/England
Credit Line The first barrel organ in NZ, sent as a gift through a bequest to Archdeacon Henry Williams and his brother William Williams, from their maternal uncle in England, John Marsh, to Paihia, Bay of Island, in 1829. Later installed in the new church at Pakaraka in April 1851. In 1867 it passed into the possession of Henry's eldest son, Edward Marsh Williams, who in 1898 lent it to the Whanganui Regional Museum, through his son, the Rev. Alfred Owen Williams, who was based in Whanganui.
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Accession No 1933.86
Name/Title Tasmacetus shepherdi (Shepherd's beaked whale); skeleton of holotype
Primary Prod Period 20th century
Measurement Reading 44 x 180 x 46cm
Credit Line Rare beaked whale washed up at Ohawe, near Hawera; first identified in 1933 by Whanganui Regional Museum curator George Shepherd and named in his honour.
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Accession No 1940.67.1
Name/Title DRAWING; Stray Leaves
Primary Maker Gordon, William Francis (d.1936)
Primary Prod Date 1878
Primary Prod Period 19th century
Primary Prod Place Whanganui
Measurement Reading 86cm
111.5cm
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