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Captain Hamilton was controversial among Māori for his role at the Battle of Gate Pā during the New Zealand Wars. The statue's removal has been linked to calls for the removal of statues of figures associated with colonialism and racism in New Zealand and the world, which had been precipitated by the murder of George Floyd.
In New Zealand, a statue of a British military officer John Hamilton was removed, and in India another colonial-era statue was relocated. In South Africa, a bust of Cecil Rhodes was decapitated, and a statue of the last president of the Orange Free State was taken down.
A bronze statue of Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton was installed for seven years, in Hamilton, New Zealand, from in 2013 [1] until removal in June 2020. [2] The settlement of Hamilton (now a city) was named after Captain Hamilton, [3] a Royal Navy officer who was killed in action during the Battle of Gate Pā.
Two months later, the Zealandia bronze figurine was decapitated coinciding with the Queen's 1981 tour of New Zealand. [8] The statue was subsequently removed by the council and reinstated with a new head in August 2004. The new head was created by Roderick Burgess, who also sculpted the replacement head of the George Grey Statue. [1]
On 12 June 2020, the Hamilton City Council removed the statue at the request of local Māori iwi Waikato Tainui. [13] The statue's removal has been linked to calls for the removal of statues of figures associated with colonialism and racism in New Zealand and the world, which were precipitated by the protests related to the murder of George ...
Removed by the Lavachery, Metraux and Watelin expedition. The oldest known statue to date. [10] Trachyte 1.6 m Otago Museum, Dunedin: New Zealand 1929 D29.6066 Moai and pukao were removed from Rapa Nui in 1881 by Alexander Ariʻipaea Salmon and shipped aboard the Nautilus to the Maison Brander plantation in Pape'ete, Tahiti. They were sold to ...
The statue was removed from the square in June 2020 by Hamilton City Council. [8] Windhausen created the bronze Land Girl Monument, which was installed and unveiled at Maungati in South Canterbury in October 2022, to commemorate the contributions of women who worked on farms in New Zealand during World War II. [9]
The empty pedestal of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol, the day after protesters felled the statue and rolled it into the harbour in 2020.. The decolonization of public space is a social movement that appeared at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century in several nations around the world, in the face of the persistence of colonialist symbols such as place names ...