Moari (swings) were often set up on the edges of rivers or lakes to allow people to swing out and drop into the water. This is an 1844 lithograph of a drawing by George French Angas. Angas's drawing was copied from a work by another artist, Joseph Jenner Merrett.
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Hand-coloured lithograph by George French Angas
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
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