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Whanganui tribes had great fishing skills and constructed elaborate devices for trapping eels. They made large weirs, which had nets attached. This photograph was taken in the 1890s.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, William James Harding Collection (PAColl-3042)
Reference: G-483-1/1
by William James Harding
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