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For #MonotremeMonday, two #echidnas from the National Gallery of Victoria collection:
1. Lena Djamarayku (Rembarrnga, NT, b. c.1948)
Echidna, 1998
earth pigments on Paperbark (Melaleuca sp.), wood & pandanus (Pandanus sp.) fibre, echidna quills
25.5×80.0×21.0cm
ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collect
2. Yvonne Koolmatrie (Ngarrindjeri, SA, b. 1944)
Echidna, 1999
sedge (Carex sp.), echidna quills
14.3×47.4×28.3cm
ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collect

#MonotremeMonday: Some pages from an 1814 collection of Bullock's Museum pictures of a #Platypus specimen by an unknown English artist.
See them all via State Library NSW:
collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/recor
collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/recor
"William Bullock was a 19th c. naturalist & antiquarian who established a museum of curiosities in the late 1790s…in 1812 he moved his collections to the newly built Egyptian Temple, Piccadilly, which became the London Museum."