Story: Acclimatisation
A girl poses with some red deer fawns at Awhea Station near Martinborough, Wairarapa, around 1890. By the 1890s acclimatisation societies were less focused on introducing all species under the sun – instead, they imported animals such as red deer that offered sporting opportunities.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Price Collection
Reference: 1/2-000268; G
Photograph by William Archer Price
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