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Eeling at Lake Forsyth

Eeling at Lake Forsyth

Eeling at Lake Forsyth

Rākaihautū and Rakihouia eventually settled on Horomaka (Banks Peninsula) and their descendants, the Waitaha people, made the surrounding land their home. This man, photographed in 1948, is hanging eels out to dry at Lake Forsyth, just south of Banks Peninsula.

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Alexander Turnbull Library , Tourist and Publicity Department Collection
Reference: 1/2-040042; F
Photograph by K. V. Bigwood

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.




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