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    Listed under:  Technologies  >  Transport  >  Vehicles  >  Water transport  >  Ships  >  Cargo ships  >  Tankers
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    'John Batman's famous treaty with the blacks', c1914

    • TLF-IDR4385

    This is a black-and-white engraving, measuring 40.4 cm x 57 cm, made by George Rossi Ashton (1851-1942) in about 1914. It depicts John Batman (1801-39) and an elderly Indigenous Australian man leaning over what is probably a treaty document on the decayed trunk of a large fallen tree. They are surrounded by 16 men, many ...

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    Statue of the explorer Kupe and his companions, 1939

    • TLF-IDR4232

    This is a very large monumental sculpture of three human figures. The Polynesian explorer Kupe holds a spear at the prow of his waka (canoe), Mätähoua; his wife, Hineiteäparangi (or Kuramarotini), points to the horizon; and the tohunga (skilled and respected person) Pekahourangi holds a tewhatewha (wooden battleaxe) and ...

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    'Where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed', 1882

    • TLF-IDR4689

    This is a watercolour by Alfred Sharpe that shows the house where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840, as seen from Motumaire Island in the Bay of Islands (far north of the North Island of New Zealand) in 1882. Steep exposed rocks, with a number of trees growing on them, dominate the foreground. The Treaty House is ...

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