George French Angas’s picture of a Māori settlement on the Waikato River bank shows a kurī (Polynesian dog) and pup. The kurī was brought to New Zealand by the first Polynesian settlers, and became a valued source of meat and pelts.
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Tinted lithograph by George French Angas
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