Scene of the Wairau Massacre. Colonel Charles Emilius Gold’s ominous depiction
of the site of what horrified European settlers remembered as the ‘Wairau massacre’ was
painted in 1851, eight years after the event.
Alexander Turnbull Library Reference: B-103-030 Artist:
Charles Emilius Gold Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand,
Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image
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'Scene of the Wairau incident', URL:
https://nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/scene-wairau-incident, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage),
updated 23-Oct-2014
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