A history of New Zealand in 100 objects / Jock Phillips.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Crocodile jaw -- Te Arawa taumata atua -- Tairua pearl shell lure -- Wairau Bar necklace -- Monck's Cave kurī -- Kahungunu hei tiki, Te Arawhiti -- Puketoi kete -- Taiaha kura -- Māori war trumpet or pūkāea -- De Surville's anchor -- Joseph Banks' or Daniel Solander's kōwhai specimen -- James Cook's cannon -- Solander Island sealskin purse -- Te Pahi's medal -- Hannah King's chair -- Hongi Hika's gun -- Te Rauparaha's mere, Tuhiwai -- Betty Guard's comb -- Bishop Pompallier's printing press -- Flag of the United Tribes -- William Wakefield's epaulets -- The Waitangi sheet of the Treaty of Waitangi -- Ruapekapeka waka huia -- Millstones from Pātea -- John Buchanan's table -- Emma Barker's sewing box -- Te Reko's cast-iron pot -- Colonel Robert Wynyard's epergne -- Wiremu Kīngi's tauihu -- James Quedley's red coatee -- Moutoa flag -- Kereopa's bailer -- Paddy Galvin's pipes -- Chinese li-ding scales -- Timaru life-saving rocket -- The locomotive Josephine -- Elisabet Engebretsdatter's hair embroidery -- Ōkaramio blacksmith bellows -- Parihaka plough/parau -- Totara Estate killing knives -- Gaelic Society targe -- Amelia Haszard's sewing machine -- 1893 women's suffrage petition -- Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia's parliamentary chest -- H. B. Lusk's cricket bat -- Northland gum cathedral -- Westport District Gold Miners' Union banner -- George Bradford's bandolier -- Richard Seddon's coronation coatee -- Christchurch 1906 exhibition waharoa -- Jimmy Hunter's All Blacks jersey -- The Dundonald coracle -- Dannevirke Plunket scales --

Hurleyville dairy cooperative cheese crate -- Leslie Adkin's baton -- Edmond Malone's lemon-squeezer -- Margaret Cruickshank's gold watch -- Tainui mere, a princely gift -- ATCO motor mower -- Rudall Hayward's camera -- The thermette -- Harold Pond's Napier Technical School uniform -- Eva Bowes' flour bag bloomers -- Photo of Michael Joseph Savage -- Pacific Burleigh radio -- Te Winika waka -- Centennial exhibition souvenir ashtray -- The Pope's accordion -- Victory cot blanket -- Chip and Rona Bailey's typewriter -- Jim Bradley's flagon case -- Godfrey Bowen's handpiece -- Crown Lynn coronation mug -- Happy Families card game -- Winston Reynolds' television set -- Mt Eden gallows -- Margaret Sparrow's contraceptive pills -- Dunedin Committee on Vietnam protest banner -- Save Manapouri Campaign share certificate -- Ngati Poneke record Aku Mahi -- Te Rōpū o te Matakite (Māori Land March) pou whenua -- Tepaeru Tereora's tīvaevae -- Montana Blenheimer wine cask -- Biko shield -- Nuclear-free badges -- Save Our Post Office poster -- POLY 1 personal computer -- Barry Brickell's memorial post to Ralph Hotere's father -- The New Zealand AIDS quilt -- Mike Smith's chainsaw -- Peter Blake's red socks -- Dorene Robinson's Swanndri -- Helen Clark's trousers -- King Théoden's armour -- The world's first iPhone 3G -- 'Thunder Down Under' Christchurch portable toilet -- Austin Wang's language cards -- Rā Maumahara pouaka petihana (New Zealand Wars Day petition box) -- Tariq Omar's football -- Ailys Tewnion's crocheted bears.

"The sewing kete of an unknown 18th-century Māori woman; the Endeavour cannons that fired on waka in 1769; the bagpipes of an Irish publican Paddy Galvin; the school uniform of Harold Pond, a Napier Tech pupil in the Hawke's Bay quake; the Biko shields that tried to protect protestors during the Springbok tour in 1981; Winston Reynolds' remarkable home-made Hokitika television set, the oldest working TV in the country; the soccer ball that was a tribute to Tariq Omar, a victim of the Christchurch Mosque shootings, and so many more - these are items of quiet significance and great personal meaning, taonga carrying stories that together represent a dramatic, full-of-life history for everyday New Zealanders"--Publisher information.