Rangitoto eruption

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Rangitoto eruption

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Description

This essay originally appeared in New Zealand Art at Te Papa (Te Papa Press, 2018). Emily Karaka’s painting Rangitoto eruption refers to two events. First is the cataclysmic birth of Rangitoto, the landmark volcanic motu, or island, in Auckland’s Waitematā Harbour. Karaka uses this event, witnessed by ancestors around ad 1400, as a historical and metaphorical lens with which to consider a second event: the explosive collision of Māori and the Crown over Takaparawhā, or Bastion Point, on the ...

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Image

Date created

1988

Creator

Emily Karaka

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/40755

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oil paint / canvas / paintings

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