Koru flag

Maker
Hundertwasser
Production date
1983
 Description
Koru flag designed by Austrian artist, architect and environmentalist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Hundertwasser gifted the flag to New Zealand in 1983 in appreciation of gaining New Zealand citizenship. The flag is "a proposal for a second flag for New Zealand which represents an unmistakable identity that combines New Zealand's age old heritage of nature and the heritage of Maori history with the growing future of a new nation" (Faye Tohbyn, 1983).
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Object detail

Maker
Production date
1983
Media/Materials
Linen, brown thread, white synthetic woven cord
Paper [information sheet]
Measurements
Flag: width 1515mm, height 755mm
Information sheet (folded): width 105mm, length 148mm
- unfolded: width 420mm, length 148mm
Card: width 129mm, length 84mm
Production place
New Zealand
Collection
Social History
Department collection type
Social History
Credit line
Collection of Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
Accession number
1989/33/1

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