The next year, The Westminster Gazette printed a cartoon of a kiwi and a kangaroo (representing Australia) going off to a colonial conference. For example, in a 1904 New Zealand Free Lance cartoon a plucky kiwi is shown growing to a moa after a rugby victory of 9–3 over a British team. In the early 1900s cartoonists began to use the kiwi as a representation of New Zealand. After early sightings by Europeans the kiwi was regarded as a curiosity in 1835 the missionary William Yate described it as "the most remarkable and curious bird in New Zealand". The bird first came to European attention in 1811 when a skin ended up in the hands of a British Museum zoologist, George Shaw, who classified it as a type of penguin and portrayed it as standing upright. The kiwi has long had a special significance for the indigenous Māori people, who used its skin to make feather cloaks ( kahu kiwi) for chiefs.
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