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Story: Te hopu tuna – eeling

Making a hīnaki

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
Photograph by James Ingram McDonald

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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Basil Keane. 'Te hopu tuna – eeling', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 25-Sep-11
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/te-hopu-tuna-eeling/3/4