Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :Te Kooti takes utu. [ca 1957].

Date
1866 - 1956 - 1868 - 1957
Reference
B-140-013
Description

Six-panelled account of Te Kooti's resistance to European incursions onto his land, his capture, transportation to the Chatham Islands, his revenge killing of the families of Major Biggs and Captain Wilson and Paratene at Poverty Bay in 1868, and his ultimate pardon in 1883

These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore.

Quantity: 1 drawing(s).

Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm.

Provenance: Donated by Mrs Jenny Gibbs, of Auckland, in 1995.

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Curator required
Part of
Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s]. / Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].
Format
1 drawing(s), Works of art, Ink drawings, Conjectural works, Cartoons (Commentary), Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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