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Rock art seems to have been particularly prone to this - borrowings appearing on fabrics, glassware and stamps.
 
Rock art seems to have been particularly prone to this - borrowings appearing on fabrics, glassware and stamps.
  
[[Image:Rock1.JPG |framed|left|A scarf with many images from rock art]]
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[[Image:Rock1.JPG |framed|left|A scarf with many images from rock art.]]
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[[Image:Glases.jpg |framed|left|In the 1960s peanut butter was sold in packaging like these - which could be used as glases after they were emptied.]]

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Archeological Kitsch

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Archaeological items of iconic status become the subject of modern copies and re-use of the imagery. New Zealand items are not immune.

Rock art seems to have been particularly prone to this - borrowings appearing on fabrics, glassware and stamps.

A scarf with many images from rock art.
In the 1960s peanut butter was sold in packaging like these - which could be used as glases after they were emptied.