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- Title
- Racist graffiti on community noticeboard, Upper Hutt
- Content partner
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
- Collection
- Te Papa Collections Online
- Description
This digital photograph captures an instance of racist vandalism which occurred in Upper Hutt, Wellington between 31 April and 1 May 2020 — soon after New Zealand moved out of its nationwide Covid-19 Alert Level 4 lockdown and into Alert Level 3. A member of the Wellington Chinese community came across the vandalised noticeboard and captured it on her phone before sending it through to the New Zealand Human Rights Commission (and later the police). The image subsequently featured in an onli...
- Format
- Image
- Date created
- 1 May 2020
- Creator
- Anonymous
- URL
- https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1871960
- Related subjects
- Signs (Notices) / Graffiti / Upper Hutt (New Zealand) / Racism / born digital / digital images / digital imaging / Chinese / Upper Hutt
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