Arrival of the Maoris in New Zealand Te Ara

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Arrival of the Maoris in New Zealand Te Ara

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The Arrival of the Maoris in New Zealand (1898), a painting by Charles Goldie and Louis Steele, was first exhibited at Auckland Art Gallery in 1899. It is a fanciful depiction of the first sighting of Aotearoa by Polynesian settlers, and is modelled on Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa.

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