BIP! Finder - Genetic analysis identifies the missing parchment of New Zealand’s founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi

2019 • Genetic analysis identifies the missing parchment of New Zealand’s founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi

Authors: Lara D. Shepherd; Peter Whitehead; Anna Whitehead

Venue: PLOS ONE

Type: Publication

Abstract: Genetic analyses provide a powerful tool with which to identify the biological components of historical objects. Te Tiriti o Waitangi | The Treaty of Waitangi is New Zealand's founding document, intended to be a partnership between the indigenous Māori and the British Crown. Here we focus on an archived piece of blank parchment that has been proposed to be the missing portion of the lower parchment of the Waitangi Sheet of the Treaty. However, its physical dimensions and characteristics are not consistent with this hypothesis. We perform genet... (read more)

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Topics: Genealogy Law

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210528

External links: Crossref OpenAIRE

Related works: Dataset 1

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