Skip to main content

Kōrero: Te hopu tuna – eeling

‘Te ika nui whakaharahara o Tangahoe’

Image
‘Catching the legendary eel at Tangahoe’

He tānga tēnei nā T. W. Downes, ko te tuna nunui kei te maimoatia mā te manu i runga i te rākau. Ka mau anō ngā tuna mā te tikanga toi, arā, te tautau noke he mea tuitui ki te harakeke, mā te purupuru rānei i tētahi kete ki te pūngāwerewere hei mōunu.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: A-076-016

by Thomas William Downes

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.

Ngā whakaahua me ngā rauemi katoa o tēnei kōrero

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Basil Keane, Te hopu tuna – eeling – Bobbing, feeling and striking, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/13982/te-ika-nui-whakaharahara-o-tangahoe (accessed 28 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Basil Keane, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.