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Selling melons and peaches, 1860s

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Selling melons and peaches, 1860s

These Māori men shelter from the sun as they wait for people to buy the fruit they have harvested, about 1860.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Urquhart Album (PA1-q-250)

Reference: PA1-q-250-26-2

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

Maggy Wassilieff, Gardens – Māori gardens, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/18858/selling-melons-and-peaches-1860s (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.