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Scene of the Wairau incident

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.

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Credit

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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