Dec 07 2024 30 mins 1
White footed ants made from freshwater pearls, a scorpion's sting carved out of ebony, and an orangutan and a gibbon in yew wood and hollywood, respectively. What about a giant petrel beak in basswood? Or a pupu rangi (kauri snail) made out of kauri gum and silver? These are but a handful of the 44 diverse animals represented exquisitely and imaginatively in jewellery by Jane Dodd in exhibition The Kingdom , up in a Victorian-era attic stuffed with dead animals at Tuhura Otago Museum in Otepoti Dunedin.
