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Kōrero: Gardens

Growing tobacco and gourds

Growing tobacco and gourds

These three children are sitting in one of the Māori gardens at Jerusalem (Hiruhārama), on the Whanganui River, in the early 1900s. Tobacco plants are behind the children and bottle gourds are growing in the foreground.

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Reference: MA_B010386

by J. McDonald

Permission of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa 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/18859/growing-tobacco-and-gourds (accessed 4 June 2026).

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