Middle-finger gesture

Flipping the bird, Giving the finger, Giving the fingers
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Charles Upham. 3 December, 2007.

Date: 2007

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DCDL-0004517

Description: Shows Captain Charles Upham who twice won the Victoria Cross for bravery in WW2. He is shown giving the fingers. Refers to the theft from the Waiouru Army Museum of a number of Victoria crosses (Incliding those of Charles Upham) and other important medals. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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Kim acknowledges global alarm. 10 October, 2006.

Date: 2006

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0002510

Description: North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, is shown giving the finger to the world. His middle finger has become a nuclear rocket. Refers to the nuclear test carried out by North Korea 9 October, 2006. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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THUMP THUMP THUMP THU THPHTTT! eeheeheehee! "I bet DANIELLE CORMACK doesn't do that eve...

Date: 2007

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0008359

Description: "Jitterati" cartoon strip. Shows Jaimee and Debbie drinking coffee in a cafe when Fitz Bunny approaches them and blows her tongue and gives the fingers to Jaimee. Jaimee comments to Debbie that she bets that Danielle Cormack doesn't do that every time she gets a good review. Refers to Fitz Bunny having a play at the BATS theatre. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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Ron Mark. 3 August, 2006.

Date: 2006

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DCDL-0002128

Description: Caricature of Ron Mark, New Zealand First list MP. He is shown giving a finger, the middle finger of his right hand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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"I say to America, I'm sorry!.... I'm no diplomat.. But having met Mr Bush I found him....

Date: 2003

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0006709

Description: Shows the Prime Minister, Helen Clark, reading her 'Bush Apology' speech. She makes two points about her observations of Bush. She lifts her middle finger first and then her forefinger in an obscene hand gesture of giving him the finger. Refers to the apology issued to the United States following comments that Clark made about the war in Iraq, which caused offence in Washington. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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News. Surgeons were able to reattach two of a fisherman's fingers after he was injured ...

Date: 2007

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0003652

Description: A fisherman stands on the shore giving what looks like a two finger salutation to a fishing trawler a little way out to sea. The fishermen on the trawler are not sure whether he is proudly showing them his fingers reattached after his accident or whether he is giving them the fingers as a way of showing his disenchantment with the job. Refers to an accident in which a fisherman lost four fingers and has had three reattached. Published in the Shipping Gazette Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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Winter, Mark 1958- :Salute. 19 November 2013

Date: 2013

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0026806

Description: Cartoon depicts a hand giving a front facing two fingered gesture, usually associated with victory. The text says it is the government saluting the public 'claiming victory after selling off all the assets before the referendum'. Gesture and text refer to the backward facing two fingered gesture associated with contempt. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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How boy racers and society reach an understanding. 9 February 2009

Date: 2009

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

Reference: DCDL-0013274

Description: Shows a boy racer in his modified car gesturing with his middle finger in hello. The government says hello back by crushing his car into a sculpture of a middle finger gesture. The boy racer is now crying. Refers Police Minister Judith Collins suggesting crushing boy racer cars as a last restort. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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Ekers, Paul, 1961-:Auckland police baffled by finger. 11 August 2006

Date: 2006

From: Ekers, Paul, 1961-:[Digital cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald and other publications]

Reference: DCDL-0030601

Description: Depicts two policemen looking in puzzlement at a severed finger. One says "..it doesnt' belong to Ron Mark". The New Zealand First MP Ron Mark raised his middle finger to MP Tau Henare in Parliament. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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Hubbard, James, 1949- :"Arrogant?! What ill informed, dim witted cretins are calling me...

Date: 2014

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0027632

Description: Cartoon shows Justice Minister Judith Collins wearing an expensive big jacket covered in a symbol of hands making a two finger gesture. She is wearing a milk bottle as a brooch and a gold pendant shaped like a bust of Collins thumbing her nose. Refers to Collins criticism of Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei for wearing costly ugly jackets, and Collins' dismissal of concerns about her visits to Oravida company offices and her endorsement of their milk products while on a taxpayer funded trip to China. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :"Betterways have submitted one final hotel design, your worshi...

Date: 2014

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0027871

Description: Shows a planner showing the Mayor of Dunedin the final design for the hotel planned by Betterways Advisory Ltd. The new design resembles a hand giving the finger. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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Greenpeace New Zealand: What New Zealand bottom trawlers think of preserving marine lif...

Date: 2006

By: Pringle, Michael James, 1962-; Greenpeace New Zealand

Reference: Eph-E-GREENPEACE-2006-01

Description: Poster shows title text, and at the lower edge, an arrangement of four fish fingers, so displayed as to be giving "the fingers" sign of scorn and defiance. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 840 x 595 mm.