on the rituals and habits of the regions and ethnic groups in question. Italian pavilion Professor Lodovico Brunetti of Padua, Italy first displayed cremated ashes at the exhibition. He showed a model of the crematory, one of the first modern ones. He exhibited it with a sign reading, "Vermibus erepti, puro consummimur igni," in english, "Saved from the worms, we are consumed by the flames." New Zealand pavilion New Zealand was represented at the 1873 Vienna International Exposition by a collection of Māori clubs, mats and cloaks, as well as gold, woodwork, kauri gum and geological specimens. Photographs of New Zealand scenery were shown and examples of flour and beer were provided by local industries. A collection of birds was prepared by a London taxidermist and Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary was said to have been "astonished" by a pair of moa skeletons from the Canterbury Museum. More than 50 awards were collected by New Zealand exhibitors but, apparently, because of a problem of categorisation on the part of the jurors, the moa display was not among them. Gallery Impact on Vienna The exhibition led to an intensive building activity in the years before. The new train station to Germany, the Nordwestbahnhof, was completed just prior to the fair. See also New Zealand Interprovincial Exhibition (prepratory event in New Zealand) Yushima Seidō Exposition (preparatory event in Japan) References Citations Bibliography . External links Official website of the BIE The Rotunda of the 1873 Vienna International Exhibition Images from the exhibition 1873 Vienna (BIE World Expo) - approximately 90 links 1873 in Austria 1870s in Vienna 1873 festivals AH