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‘Tangaroa’s conversation with Tui’

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‘Tangaroa’s conversation with Tui’

This artwork, ‘Tangaroa’s conversation with Tui’, has a Pasifika-influenced background. It was done by Michel Tuffery, a New Zealand artist of Samoan heritage. In Samoa, Tangaroa is known as Tagaloa.

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Manuka Henare, Te mahi kai – food production economics – Initial settlement, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/20249/tangaroas-conversation-with-tui (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Manuka Henare, published 1 March 2009.