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Story: Kiore – Pacific rats

Pit trap

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Pit trap

This pit trap is known as a rua torea. Kiore walked across the stick to the bait and slipped into the pit, where they were collected by a trapper.

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Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Reference: Elsdon Best, The Maori. Wellington: Board of Maori Ethnological Research for the Author and on behalf of the Polynesian Society, 1924, p. 501

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Bradford Haami, Kiore – Pacific rats – Hunting and eating kiore, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/diagram/16130/pit-trap (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Bradford Haami, published 1 March 2009.

Comments

Margaret Otimi Kiore
03 August 2022
Tena koe, I am interested in learning more of my Whakapapa Te Otimi Kiore. Thank you Margaret Otimi