Image: Kate Sheppard Memorial. FZ200 (14409824662)

Description: About the Memorial The Memorial, the work of sculptor Margriet Windhausen, comprises a 3.3m by 2.1m bronze bas-relief supported by a 5m pebbled wall. The Memorial stands in a landscaped area beside the Avon River on Oxford Terrace known as the Kate Sheppard National Memorial Reserve. It is the only National Memorial in Christchurch and is the only New Zealand monument depicting the fight for women’s suffrage. The central panel depicts life size figures of Kate Sheppard and other leaders of the suffrage movement. Smaller panels depict women of the time in typical everyday settings. Bronze panels record a written history of Kate Sheppard and the suffrage movement. A time capsule enclosed in the wall contains a record of the donors and material relevant to women’s lives in 1993.

The six women are Kate Sheppard (1847 – 1934), Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia (1868 – 1920), Amey Daldy (1829 – 1920), Ada Wells (1863 – 1933), Harriet Morison (1862 – 1925), and Helen Nicol (1854 – 1932).
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