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Kōrero: South Canterbury region

Rock drawings

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Rock drawings

South Canterbury has several hundred sites of Māori rock art. These drawings of a birdman and fish are in a limestone shelter near Frenchman’s Gully Road, Maungati. The shelter is open to the public.

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John Wilson, South Canterbury region – Māori in South Canterbury, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/11328/rock-drawings (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā John Wilson, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 February 2017.