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Collecting seafood at Porirua Harbour

Collecting seafood at Porirua Harbour

This watercolour by Samuel Brees from the early 1840s shows a waka (canoe) on Porirua Harbour, with somebody collecting shellfish on the rocky shore.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: B-031-028
Watercolour by Samuel Charles Brees

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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Manuka Henare. 'Te mahi kai – food production economics', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 1-Mar-09
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