Maori rebel flag: Aotearoa

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Maori rebel flag: Aotearoa

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Te Papa Collections Online

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This essay originally appeared in New Zealand Art at Te Papa (Te Papa Press, 2018). In 1916 James Allan Thomson, director of the Dominion Museum, purchased the ‘Gordon collection’ for £100. The collection consisted of ‘portraits, maps, diagrams, &c., relating to the Maori wars of the “sixties”, gathered during many years with loving care by Mr WF Gordon, of New Plymouth’.1 Included in this purchase were forty drawings, collectively titled ‘Copies of some Hauhau and other rebel flags, many of...

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Date created

1913

Creator

William Francis Gordon

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/400082

Related subjects

Flags / watercolour / ink / paper / watercolours / works on paper / Rotorua / Ngāti Uenuku Kōpako / Te Arawa / New Plymouth

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