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War Memorial |
The Auckland Museum dominates the Auckland Domain |
The museum building itself is a war memorial as well |
Outrigger canoe Solomon Islands |
Ancestor boards (gope, kwoi, hohao) Papua New Guina |
Paddles |
Paddle |
Mask from Papua New Guinea |
Carvings from New Guinea |
From the Sepik Region, Papua New Guinea |
Kulap, New Ireland |
Canoe prow |
House gable finial, Papua New Guinea |
Colonization of the Pacific Islands |
Camakau, Sailing Canoe, Fiji |
Camakau, Sailing Canoe, Fiji |
Baukianga, stone-headed clubs, Rennell |
Necklaces |
Wall-hanging made of small shells |
Detail |
Malagan funerary figure, New Ireland |
Figure from Papua New Guinea |
Christian crucifix from Papua New Guinea |
Polynesians arrived in New Zealand around 1200 |
Model of a Maori village |
Maori Te Ohe carved around 1825 from Lake Rotorua |
1840s Maori Tahuhu figures from a whare whakairo ridgepole |
Maori Rangitihi Pou (carved wall slabs or posts) ca 1870 |
Maori tools |
Maori Carvings |
Maori Pare - early 19th C door lintel |
Maori carving |
Maori Tekoteko - carved figure |
Porch section of a whare whakairo ridgepole |
Maori figure from the 1840's |
Central hall of the Maori display containing a complete 1870s pataka (storehouse) |
Figure of Tama-te-Kapua, capt of the Arawa canoe beached at Maketu |
Pataka |
The Maori carved images on the Pataka to represent the ancestors |
Ancestors |
Ancestors |
Older carvings |
Pou Whakarae from a Pa at Tolaga Bay |
Pou Whakarae - 2 large figures from a Pa near East Cape |
More Maori carvings at the Auckland Museum |
Kuwaha Pataka, storehouse doorway |
Maori War Canoe could hold 100 warriors |
Te Toki a Tapiri, the last of the great Maori war canoes, is 25m long |
Prow of the war canoe Te Toki a Tapiri, built around 1836 |
Stern of the war canoe |
Stern of the war canoe |
Waharoa (gateway) 1830s |
Kuwaha Pataka-carved storehouse doorway |
Paepae Pataka, storehouse threshold |
Putatara, a large tropical triton shell trumpet |
Maori jade carvings |
Pipiwharauroa, pendant of pounamu jade |
Figures from Hinana, a famouse 1856 storehouse |
Ancestors |
Meeting house ridgepole |
Axes and clubs |
Tiki |
Tiki |
Te Ware (1902-1987) |
The 2 key buildings of the Maori exhibit, the storehouse and the meetinghouse |
Hotonui, the 1878 Maori meetinghouse |
Hotonui Meetinghouse |
Hotonui Meetinghouse |
Hotonui Meetinghouse |
Hotonui Meetinghouse |
Hotonui Meetinghouse |
Hotonui Meetinghouse |
Hotonui Meetinghouse |
Hotonui Meetinghouse |
Hotonui Meetinghouse |
Hotonui Meetinghouse |
Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus) a flightless parrot |
The Kiwi |
The Kiwi bird, New Zealands national emblem |
Upland moa (Megalapteryz didinus) and Mappin's moa (Pachyornis mappini) |
Heavy-footed moa (Pachyornis elephantopus) |
Giant Moa |
Dinosaur |
There is a small amount of Maori art upstairs |
Greco-style Buddha |
Near and Middle Eastern Artefacts |
Reproduction of the Dying Gladiatior |
Dying Gladiatior |
Dying Gladiatior |
Dying Gladiatior |
Reproduction of the Lancoon |
See the Vatican for the original |
Lancoon |
Lancoon |
Reproduction discus thrower |
Discus Thrower |
Different view... |
Auckland in the 1800s- Steer's Hotel |
Auckland in the 1800s- Steer's Hotel |
Auckland in the 1800s- G.T. Chapman Bookseller and Publisher |
The Anglo-Boer War gallery |
World War I gallery |
World War I gallery |
The Road to Damascus |
General Allenby to his NZ troops after the Massacre at Surafend (Palestine) 1918 |
World War I gallery |
World War I gallery |
Temporary exhibit on Gallipoli |
The First World War Sactuary |
South Africa War 1899-1902 (Second Anglo-Boer War) |
Bell of the HMNZS Achilles, which fought the Graf Spee at the WWII Battle of the Plate River |
"He's Coming South. It's fight, work or perish" WWII |
German paratrooper submachine gun, World War II |
WWII allied artillery |
Japanese Imperial Naval Ensign |
Japanese aviation in World War II |
Japanese Zero - Mitsubishi A6M3 model 22 |
Zero - 2679kg, 540 kmh, ceiling 10,500m, range 1260 miles (2030 with drop tanks) |
Vickers Supermarine Spitfire LF XVIE |
Spitfire - 3402kg, 652 kmh, ceiling 12,200m, range 980 miles |
British Spitfire |
German V1 |
German V1 |
Holocaust gallery |
Holocaust gallery |
Japanese swords surrendered during World War II |
Samurai armor |
Bladed weapons gallery |
Bladed weapons gallery |
Bladed weapons gallery |
Second World War Shrine in the Hall of Memory |
Hall of Memory |
Hall of Memory - commemorating the Battle of the River Plate |
Hall of Memory - commemorating the Battle of Britain |
Hall of Memory - commemorating the Battle of Britain |
Record of the Fallen 1939-1945, Hall of Memory |
Showery day in Auckland with the Sky Tower |
The Lamppost at the End of the Rainbow |
Double rainbow over the Auckland Domain |
Rainbow with the Auckland Museum |
Rainbow with the memorial in front of the Auckland Museum |
Rainbow & War Memorial |
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