POSTCARD MOZAMBIQUE LOURENCO MARQUES ALVARO de CASTRO NATURL HISTORY MUSEUM REAL PHOTO LION BUFFALO.
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Condition
Secondhand
Location
South Africa
Time Period
Post-1950
Size
Other
Posted
Unposted
Grading
Very Good
Product code
POSTCARDS x 1
Bob Shop ID
615020356
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM = MAPUTO = MOZAMBIQUE.
TAXIDERMY EXHIBIT OF LIONS ATTACKING A BUFFALO.
Alvaro de Castro Museum and Discoveries Square.
Museu Alvaro de Castro e Largo dos Descobrimentos.
In 1940, the naturalist Maria Corinta Ferreira decided to leave the zoology research centre of the board for colonial research (Junta de Inves- tiga c oes ColoniaisJIC), where she felt gender discriminated as a scientist, and compete for the position of naturalist at the Museum Dr. A lvaro de Cas- tro Museum (MAC) located in Louren co Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique. By benefitting from the knowledge and the entomological collections of museums and scientific institutes in , for 25 years (19491974) she built up a scientific career as a researcher in entomology and achieved international recognition. As a woman, however, she never reached the up- per positions in MACs hierarchy or in the Scientific Research Institute of Mozambique (IICM), the pretext being her formal academic credentials, no- tably the fact that she was given the title of Doctor on the basis of her published research, rather than upon completing a PhD.
MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUES NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM is housed inside a beautiful old building with nicely kept gardens. The collection includes many artifacts you would expect to find in a natural history museum, including descriptions of animal migration, ancient pottery, and a small ethnology exhibit, but it is also home to elephant foetuses and dioramas full of neon water. While the building housing the museum features a number of exhibits, the largest amount of space is given to its aging taxidermy centerpiece. A majority of the ground floor is a crowded arrangement of preserved animals native to this part of Africa. The animals appear to be in various states of disrepair and include what museum guides claim is a pair of paper maché rhinos, created to replace the real rhinos, which had been stolen from the museum. Some of the trophy creatures are posed in deadly battle, while the majority of the menagerie are gathered around a strip of neon green watering holes. The unnatural color seems a bit strange, but is not unheard of in the natural world. Spared from both the watering hole and the battles, is a well-preserved honey badger, digging a hole in its own glass case. Not far from the taxidermy menagerie on the ground floor is also an eerie display of elephant fetuses behind glass. The half-formed giants are presented in a gradually more mature state of development. Although at no point are the foetuses anything less than a bit unsettling.
Condition = very good.
VG (Very Good) Corners may be just a bit blunt or rounded. Almost undetectable crease or bend that does not detract from overall appearance of picture side.
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