Story: Kūmara

More links and websites

• 
  Koanga o te tau: planting time
  

  This 1967 article from Te Ao Hou
  magazine discusses ways of growing and preparing
  kūmara.

• 
  Kumaras and kumara magic
  

  A 1962 article from Te Ao Hou about the
  religious aspects of growing kūmara.

• 
  Maori gardening: an archaeological
  perspective
  

  This very comprehensive report by Louise Furey
  focuses particularly on kūmara (PDF, 445 KB).

• 
  On the vegetable food of the ancient New Zealanders
  before Cook’s visit
  

  This 1880 paper by William Colenso includes
  information on kūmara.

More suggestions and sources

• Best, Elsdon. Māori agriculture: the
  cultivated food plants of the natives of New
  Zealand: with some account of native methods of
  agriculture, its ritual and origin myths.
  Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2005 (originally
  published 1925).
• Davidson, Janet M. The prehistory of New
  Zealand. Auckland: Longman Paul, 1987.
• Leach, Helen May Keedwell. 1,000 years of
  gardening in New Zealand. Wellington: Reed,
  1984.