The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume II: The Hauhau Wars, (1864–72)
The Maori King's Flag
The Maori King's Flag
This drawing of the flag hoisted on the proclamation of Potatau te Wherowhero as Maori King was made at Ngaruawahia by Lieutenant (afterwards Colonel) H. S. Bates, of the 65th Regiment, in 1863, shortly before the Waikato War began.