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Kōrero: Forestry research

Māori use of the forest

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Māori use of the forest

This 1847 tinted lithograph by George French Angas shows Māori people in forest near Waipā, in the Waikato. For generations before the arrival of Europeans, Māori used the forest as a source of food and medicines.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PUBL-0029-245

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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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Margaret Richardson, Forestry research – The development of forest research, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/17044/maori-use-of-the-forest (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Margaret Richardson, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.