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Ye triumphal return from ye Wynyard his diggings.

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Date

2 October 1852

Artist

Charles Heaphy (1820-1881)

Collective Title

Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :How we went to the diggings and what we did there. In a series of cartoons. [1852]

Collection

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image Link

https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22744998

Description

A procession of naval officer with Gold Commissioner Charles Heaphy, two men carrying a tree-fern or nikau, several carrying panning and digging equipment, some (as stick figures) coming down from a high hill with rocks falling about them, other playing leap-frog on the beach to the left. The H. M. S. Pandora is standing off to the left at sea.

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Image Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library

Location

New Zealand

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Mountains
Mining

Category

People & Society

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