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Story: Te hopu tuna – eeling

Making a hīnaki

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Making a hīnaki

Paratene Ngata of the Ngāti Porou tribe (left) is weaving a hīnaki. He is being observed by anthropologist Te Rangi Hīroa (Peter Buck), right, with notebook.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Ramsden Papers

Reference: 1/2-037930-F

by James Ingram McDonald

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

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Basil Keane, Te hopu tuna – eeling – Hīnaki – eel pots, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/13978/making-a-hinaki (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Basil Keane, published 2 March 2009.