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Māori market

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Māori market

Māori canoes bring produce to Onehunga, Auckland in this William Strutt painting from the mid-1850s. Strutt’s journal records that a fleet of canoes arrived with produce, including pumpkin and pigs, for sale in Auckland.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: G-637

by William Strutt

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Perrin Rowland, Markets – Early public markets, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/23018/maori-market (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Perrin Rowland, published 26 February 2010.