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A settler bartering tobacco for potatoes and pumpkin

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A settler bartering tobacco for potatoes and pumpkin

This sketch, dating from around 1845, shows a Whanganui settler bartering with Māori for potatoes and pumpkins they have grown alongside the Whanganui River.

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Hocken Collections, University of Otago

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Maggy Wassilieff, Market gardens and production nurseries – History of market gardening, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/20000/a-settler-bartering-tobacco-for-potatoes-and-pumpkin (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.