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Ascendant, from the portfolio “Taxa”

Date
2006
Material
Inkjet print
Classification
Prints
Current Location
Not on view
Dimensions
image (each): 34 1/16 x 25 1/2 in. (86.5 x 64.8 cm)
sheet (each): 35 in. x 26 1/2 in. (88.9 x 67.3 cm)
Credit Line
The Sidney S. and Sadie Cohen Print Purchase Fund
Rights
© Isabella Kirkland
Object Number
158:2011.2
NOTES
Colonization of the New World brought a wealth of species to the Americas from around the globe. The seventy-four species in Ascendant are all non-native, but they are also thriving as their populations continue to grow—often at the expense of indigenous flora and fauna. The Indian mongoose, for example, was originally imported to the Hawaiian Islands in the 1880s to control sky-rocketing numbers of another invasive species: rats. Instead, the mongoose has had tragic consequences for rare local bird colonies.

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