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Kōrero: Kurī – Polynesian dogs

Pōtaka Tawhiti – Te Arawa

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Carving, Ōhinemutu

Ruarua noa ngā whakairo tūturu a te Māori ka whakaata i te āhua ake o te kararehe. He whakairo tēnei o te māhunga o te kurī rongonui rā a Pōtaka Tawhiti, kei te wharenui o Tamatekapua ki Ōhinemutu.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Paul Tapsell

by Krzysztof Pfeiffer

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Basil Keane, Kurī – Polynesian dogs – Traditional accounts of kurī, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/16228/potaka-tawhiti-te-arawa (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Basil Keane, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.