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Rotorua women in the 1920s pose for a photographer. They are lowering flax bags filled with food to be cooked in the thermal springs, and their clothes seem traditional, but it is unlikely that such clothes would have been worn for cooking. Pictures like this show how ideas of traditional Māori culture have been distorted.
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08 July 2020