Cook Island Company Badge 1916

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Cook Island Company Badge 1916

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Te Papa Collections Online

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This is a metal badge made for troops of the Cook Islands Company of the New Zealand army in the First World War. It is modelled after the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion Badge and features the face of a Maori warrior wearing a solid necklace that joins the tips of two ferns. Crossed over in the centre is an axe and a pickaxe. "NZ" (an abbreviation of New Zealand) appears below the warrior’s necklace and below that is a banner inscribed with the words "COOK.IS.COY". Significance New Zealand rec...

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https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1660293

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Warriors / Axes / Equipment / metal / badges / Cook Islands / New Zealand / Cook Islands Māori / military history

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