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Captain James Cook statue defaced in Gisborne

12 Jun, 2020 11:13 PM2 minutes to read
The Captain Cook monument in Gisborne, before it was defaced. Photo / Hawkes Bay Today

The Captain Cook monument in Gisborne, before it was defaced. Photo / Hawkes Bay Today

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A Captain James Cook statue in Gisborne has been defaced.

Images posted on social media show that graffiti has been sprayed across the monument, which sits alongside the Tūranganui River in Waikanae Park.

The graffiti said "Black Lives Matter and so do Maori" and "Take this racist headstone of my people down before I do". Swastikas were also sprayed on the statue.

Captain Cook monument in Gisborne. pic.twitter.com/Iv3cbnzcx4

— Amanda Gillies (@Amanda_Gillies) June 12, 2020

The monument, erected in 2000, was also graffitied in July.

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Cook's legacy has been divisive in the town, which is roughly half Pākehā and half Māori.

The explorer first made landfall in Poverty Bay in 1769, and his crew killed nine iwi members from Ngāti Oneone after a misunderstanding.

Another Cook statue was removed from Kaiti Hill overlooking Gisborne last year, as part of the 250th commemorations of Cook's arrival.

The maunga was sacred to Ngāti Oneone, and the monument depicting Cook as heroic was insulting, the iwi said.

New sculptures now stand in its place, and the original statue is being moved to the grounds of Tairāwhiti Museum.

The Gisborne District Council recently reversed a decision to install two Endeavour replicas in the town centre after an outcry by iwi, who said they were not consulted.

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