Horses stand ready to pull sledges of flax at the flax mill in Whakakī, Hawke's Bay, in 1889. From around 1820 through to the early 1900s Māori were involved in the flax industry. Over this period it changed from an industry controlled by iwi to one where Māori worked on contract as labourers.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, E. R. Williams Collection
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Photograph by William Williams
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