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Kōrero: Māori foods – kai Māori

Te tukituki i te aruhe, i te tau 1842

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Crushing fern root, 1842

Me āta tukituki rawa te aruhe kia puta rā anō  tōna reka. He umanga nui te paopao aruhe i ngā wā o mua; arā, i mua i te taenga mai o tauiwi me ōna kai hōu. Kāti, he whakaahua tēnei o te pā o Pipitea ki Te Whanganui-a-Tara. E kī ana te tohunga tā, ‘Kei te taha matau e whakangāwari ana tēnei Māori i te aruhe. He reka tonu ki a rātou tēnei kai.’ Kei roto i te whare i muri i a ia e tunu kai ana te wahine i te taha o tana ahi.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PUBL-0011-04-1

by William Mein Smith

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

Charles Royal rāua ko Jenny Kaka-Scott, Māori foods – kai Māori – Traditional growing and gathering, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/40248/crushing-fern-root-1842 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Charles Royal rāua ko Jenny Kaka-Scott, i tāngia i te 3 December 2012.