In 1844 and 1845 Hōne Heke repeatedly cut down the flagstaff at Kororāreka in protest at what he saw as the denigration by the British Crown of Māori chiefly authority. His symbolic actions were to become mythologised; this artist’s impression illustrated Reginald Horsley’s 1908 book, New Zealand: romance of empire.
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Photolithograph by Arthur David McCormick
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