A distinctive form of investment by Māori were the weirs constructed in rivers to channel eels into traps. This one was photographed in the later 19th century, at Pungarehu on the southern part of the Whanganui River.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, William James Harding Collection (PAColl-3042)
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1/1-000483; G
Photograph by William James Harding
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