Pānia of the Reef (Napier) - a sea maiden who married a local chief Karitoki & they had a son named Moremore

Another view of Pānia's statue which was unveiled at Napier's Marine Parade on 10 June 1954

Waiaraka atop Turuturu Rock (Whakatāne Heads) - daughter of Chief Toroa, captain of Mataatua Canoe

Commemorates bravery for defying tapu that forbade women paddling waka & saving women drifting out to sea. Unveiled 1965

Hinemoa and Tutānakei on the waharoa (gateway) at the Model Pā at Whakarewarewa, Rotorua

Carved by Tene Waitere of Ngati Tarawhai, c.1905

Hine Te Apārangi alongside her husband Kupe (Harbour waterfront, Wellington)

"The Coming of the Māori" (first unveiled in plaster in 1939) was recast in bronze & renamed Kupe's group (1999)

Princess Te Puea Herangi (Turangawaewae Marae, Ngāruawahia)

Jean Batten's statue was unveiled outside the Auckland International Airport terminal on 5 Oct 1989

Plaque: Commemorates Jean Batten (Auckland)

Jean Batten at the opening of the National Bank at Jean Batten Place (22 Nov 1979)

Bronze bust of Jean Batten (MOTAT, Auckland)

Cast by Marshall Watt, 1988

Kate Sheppard (Wellington)

Bust presented by Women’s Christian Temperance Union to the New Zealand Parliament in 1993

Kate Sheppard national memorial (Christchurch)

Unveiled 19 Sept 1993, by Governor General, Dame Catherine Tizard, to commemorate 100 years since NZ women won the vote

Kate Sheppard (Christchurch)

Kate Sheppard: $10 banknote which was first issued in 1990

In 1893 white camellias were given to Members of Parliament who had supported the bill to give NZ universal sufferage

Kate Sheppard commemorative teaspoon

Produced as part of events celebrating 100 years of Women's Suffrage

Hurstmere Green & Kate Sheppard (Auckland)

Commemorating 100 years since the vote & the pioneer women of the North Shore City, 19 Sep 1993

Margaret Cruickshank statue which was unveiled at Waimate in 1923

1st woman registered as doctor in NZ. Plaque: "The Beloved Physician/Faithful until Death"

Invercargill’s Southern Sting netball team: 1998–2007 (Invercargill Airport)

Katherine Mansfield statue at Midland Park, Lambton Quay, Wellington was unveiled in 2013

'Woman of Words' is a 3.3m stainless steel figure adorned with phrases from Mansfield's writing which were laser cut

Video of Dame Whina Cooper Statue being unveiled at Waipuna Marae, Panguru on 3 Feb 2020

Dame Hilda Ross (Hamilton)

Statue of NZ's 2nd female Cabinet minister & founder of children's health camps unveiled on 31 Oct 2020

'Ken & Ken (the Topp Twins)' is part of artist Paul Rayner's toby jug series of character mugs

Dames Lynda & Jules Topp are a music comedy duo. They also adorn a mural on the wall of a building at Huntly.

Catherine Burnett memorial cairn (Mount Cook Station) c.1920

Pioneer wife and mother who arrived in MacKenzie Country in 1864 and died in 1914

Statue honouring pioneer women (Howick)

Emilia Maud Nixon's Garden of Memories. Commissioned from sculptor W.H. Feldon in 1939

Memorial to Canterbury pioneer women

Foundation stone laid by Lilian Priscilla Wakefield, the granddaughter of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, on 16 December 1939

‘Farming family’ (Hamilton)

Donated by Sir Robert Jones in 1990

Greymouth mural of women playing a support role at home on the West Coast

Plaque: Commemorates three Waimate nurses who drowned during the sinking of the Marquette in Oct 1915 during WWI

This plaque was displayed on walls of Waimate Hospital until it closed in 1996 & is now on display in the Waimate Museum

Sculpture of 'Mother and children' in National War Memorial's Hall of Memories, Wellington, which opened in 1964

Statue by Lyndon Smith depicts a wartime family giving one another comfort & hope in the absence of loved ones overseas

Commemorative plaque, NZ Women's Land Service made by Badges & Crests 1986 Ltd

Hinerangi (Pukeahu War Memorial Park, Wellington), unveiled 2015

Woman in a kākahu facing Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, in memory of non-fighting people who lost family to war

Paeroa RSA memorial for WWII includes a nurse

Stained glass lancet window commemorates 1,655 women who served in Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service from 1942-47

The window was dedicated in the Naval memorial Chapel of St Christopher's on 15 Aug 1999

Mural representing the role of women on the home front during WWII painted onto Palmerston North's Memorial Park toilets

Another scene on the mural at Palmerston North's Memorial Park which was also painted by local artist Gembol in 2017

A remembrance plaque was placed under a tree in Palmerston North's Memorial Park, 2019

Queen Victoria (Albert Park, Auckland)

Unveiled in 1897

Queen Victoria (Rotorua)

The bust was presented by Prince Alfred when he visited in 1870. The pedestal & canopy were erected in 1900.

Queen Victoria (Wellington)

Unveiled at Post Office Square in 1905, before being moved to Cambridge and Kent Terrace in 1911

Queen Victoria (Christchurch)

Unveiled on 25 May 1903

Queen Victoria (Christchurch ) - rear view

Queen Victoria (Dunedin)

Photo taken in 1912

Idealised female statue, "Love breaking the sword of hate", holding a dove in one hand and a sword in the other

The statue was erected at Albert Park, Auckland in 1900

Group of 6 Māori figures included 3 women - two sitting & one standing with child in a pikau (backpack), Christchurch

Statues made by James Ingram McDonald for New Zealand International Exhibition, held in Christchurch, 1906 – 1907

Frontal view of idealised figure of the wahine - the only remaining figure of the group of 6 statues

The woman is draped in a korowai (long feather cloak). The statue is on display at the Waimate Museum and Archives.

Bronze lamp in shape of woman (MOTAT, Auckland)

1940s

Female figure sculpted in a Western modernist style by artist Selwyn Muru

Photograph taken in 1964 by Ans Westra during Ringatu New Year hui at Wairoa

'Mother and Daughter’ by Nic Clegg (Tauranga)

Sculpture inspired by the paintings of L.S. Lowry and created from steel. Photographed 2011.

Representations of patupaiarehe, the fairies of the forest (Te Papa, Wellington)

Sculptured from supplejack by Dion Hitchens, of Māori (Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Porou) and Chinese descent, 2001

Waitūkei sculpture marked new millennium in mixing of Māori & European cultures in Rotorua (Government Gardens)

Bronze sculptures symbolise a man and woman by Rotorua artist Lyonel Grant, June 2001

Bronze statue of a woman by Paul Dibble (Masterton)

Located in Queen Street, Masterton by Moore Wilson warehouse

Statue of Mary at St John of Gods, Halswell

Statue of St Mary in the grounds of the Stoke orphanage, Nelson

Photographed 1900

Statue of Our Lady of Compassion beside grave of Mother Aubert shifted from Karori Cemetery to Island Bay in 1950

Later, Mother Mary Joseph (Suzanne) Aubert's grave was reinterred in the Resting Place beside the Chapel in Jan 2017

Statue of The Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Lourdes (Paraparaumu), 1958

Artist Martin Roestenberg working on The Virgin Mary statue at Paraparaumu

The Virgin Mary Statue under construction at Paraparaumu