Grave Robber: the story of Andreas Reischek

Update: 2016-11-27

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In the 1880s Austrian naturalist and ethnographer Andreas Reischek stole four mummified Māori corpses and 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 to preserve them "for science".

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Grave Robber: the story of Andreas Reischek