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Kōrero: Kurī – Polynesian dogs

Kurī

Kurī

Kei Te Papa Tongarewa i Te Whanganui-a-Tara tēnei kurī. Nā ngā tūpuna o te Māori te kurī i mau ki Aotearoa.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Reference: MA_I006390

Permission of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Ngā whakaahua me ngā rauemi katoa o tēnei kōrero

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Basil Keane, Kurī – Polynesian dogs – What is the kurī?, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/16216/kuri (accessed 11 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Basil Keane, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.

Comments

sophia
28 November 2016
Did the Polynesians eat these dogs?