The Union Jack (Britain's flag) replaced the United Tribes flag as the recognised flag of New Zealand after the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840. This imagined scene, painted around 1950, shows a Māori chief signing the treaty before Lieutenant-Governor William Hobson, who is seated at a table covered with a Union Jack.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
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Artwork by Marcus King
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
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