Two Māori are shown below the flag of the United Tribes. The United Tribes, or Wakaminenga o Nu Tirene, signed the Declaration of Independence on 28 October 1835. Their flag had already been selected and adopted the previous year.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
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MS-1550-120
Pencil and watercolour sketch by Edward Markham
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