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- Title
- The blowing up of the Boyd
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- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
- Collection
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The 1809 Boyd incident is probably the single most notorious event in the pre-colonial history of New Zealand, widely considered to have delayed the British annexation of the country. A rangatira, or chief, returning from Sydney was wrongly accused of onboard theft and punished with the cat-o’-nine-tails. Arriving at Whangaroa to take on a shipment of kauri timber, the ship and its crew faced utu, or payment, for this wrong. The four survivors included two children, but some seventy crew lost...
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- Date created
- 1889
- Creator
- Louis John Steele / Kennett Watkins
- URL
- https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/36720
- Related subjects
- Ships / Explosions / Canoes / People / Islands, Bay of (New Zealand) / Māori / oil paint / canvas / paintings / armed conflicts / Ngā Puhi / Auckland
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