Description
Birds in Axel W. Eriksson collection was collected in South-Western Africa during 1867-1887. The birds are mainly collected by Axel W. Eriksson himself, with the exception of a few specimens collected by Charles John Andersson. The geographical range of the collection includes present-day Namibia, Angola, South Africa and Botswana. Eriksson's operations took place at the Omaruru trading station in central Namibia, which he established in 1869. From Omaruru, a large number of trade expeditions took place in the 1870s and 80s, a trade that mainly comprised of weapons, ivory, ostrich feathers and cattle. Most of the zoological collections were carried out during these trade expeditions. The collected material was stored in Omaruru in special magazines designed to withstand damage from e.g. insects before being transferred to Vänersborg's museum. Although birds dominate Eriksson's zoological collections, they also include bird eggs, mammals and insects. The collection presented in this dataset contains around 1000 birds. During the time of collection, Axel W Eriksson labeled each bird with its Latin name, the color of the bird's eyes, sex, location and date of collection. The extensive bird collection, of great importance for the founding and establishment of Vänersborg museum, was donated to the city of Vänersborg in 1883 by Axel Eriksson. It was mounted by the renowned taxidermist Gustav Kolthoff (1845-1913). Zoological collections from Eriksson have also been donated to the South African Museum in Cape Town, the British Museum of Natural History in London, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Gothenburg Museum of Natural History and the Universities of Lund and Uppsala.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1,000 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Öberg A (2023). Axel W. Erikssons African Bird Collection at Vänersborg Museum. Version 1.7. Vänersborgs Museum. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.15468/z5l3wx
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Vänersborgs Museum. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 7c2d6468-1baf-4a23-8c89-09819291290b. Vänersborgs Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.
Keywords
Occurrence; Namibia; Aves; Image; Preserved Specimens; Axel W. Eriksson; Namibia; South Africa; Angola; Botswana; Specimen; Birds; Vanersborg; Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
Specimens from South-Western Africa. The area include todays Namibia, Angola, South Africa and Botswana.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-34.718, 11.074], North East [-5.909, 29.443] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Aves.
| Class | Aves (Birds) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 1867-1887, 1909-1949 |
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| Living Time Period | 1867-1887 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Fåglar i Namibia |
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| Study Area Description | Inventory of the collection of birds and the publishing of a book of the specimen in the Axel W. Erikssons African Birdcollection at Vänersborg Museum. Published 1989. |
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Additional Metadata
The collection was inventoried by ethnologist Joris Komen from Namibia in 1991.
| Alternative Identifiers | 7c2d6468-1baf-4a23-8c89-09819291290b |
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| https://doi.org/10.15468/z5l3wx | |
| https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=vm-birds |