Special edition of ‘Witness’

Special edition of ‘Witness’

The arrival of the Maoris in New Zealand by Charles Goldie and his former teacher Louis Steele. Te Ara Encyclopedia explains how the painting was modelled on Theodore Gericault’s The raft of the Medusa, portraying the moment a shipwrecked French naval crew saw a rescue ship: "Goldie and Steele’s painting replicates ... the impression of utter despair and starvation, which later commentators have criticised as wholly inaccurate and condescending to the Polynesian navigators who made deliberate voyages of exploration." — Otago Witness 1925 Christmas Annual On Monday morning the Christmas number of the Otago Witness will be on sale throughout the Dominion.