Colin McCahon, 'Scared', 1976 - Print - wholesale xmas Stephanie Gibson is Curator Contemporary

Stephanie Gibson is Curator Contemporary Life & Culture at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Theophilus Hinks was killed with Cook in Hawaii during the third voyage

This festive tale follows what happens after something shiny and red comes in to the possession of Kat Quin's beloved Kuwi the kiwi character

Other connections are suggested too

Colin McCahon, 'Scared', 1976 - Print - wholesale xmas Stephanie Gibson is Curator ContemporaryColin McCahon developed a keen sense of purpose as an artist very early in life. In 1939, at the age of twenty, he wrote: The force of painting as propaganda for social reform is immense if properly wielded 1 Concerned with the human condition, he maintained a powerful desire to communicate even as he pursued an increasingly austere painterly vision. In his late work he used white paint, emerging from a dark background, to suggest the possibility of