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Mayor Grant Smith asked that the traditional ANZAC Day poppy wreath be a community created object in 2016. Hundreds of knitted, felted and crocheted poppies were donated to the project and hand-stitched on to the wreath.

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Object type
Image
Digitisation ID
COMM1479951365
Title
Palmerston North Community Poppy Wreath - ANZAC Day 2016
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Place
The Square, Palmerston North
Date
April 2016

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Taxonomy

Tags
2010s,
anzac day,
community,
craft,
knitting,
poppies,
the square,
ww1,
wwi,
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