Recruitment cartoon for Māori

Recruitment cartoon for Māori

This work by William Blomfield, entitled 'The spirit of his fathers', appeared in the December 1915 issue of the New Zealand Observer. It shows a Māori soldier charging two Ottoman Turk soldiers with the ghost of a Māori warrior behind him. Cartoons like this attempted to evoke the spirit of the Māori god of war, Tū-mata-uenga, to encourage Māori participation in the war.

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