Story: Te mahi kai – food production economics
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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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: PUBL-0029-033
Tinted lithograph by George French Angas
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.
