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Kōrero: Dalmatians

Dalmatians and Māori at Houhora

Dalmatians and Māori at Houhora

Dalmatian and Māori gum diggers gather at Houhora in Northland on New Year’s Day, 1911. A number of Dalmatians paid these Māori to make them a hāngī (earth oven). The diggers and their friends are about to feast on a pig being carved by the gentleman in the centre of the photograph.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Northwood Collection (PA-Group-00027)

Reference: PAColl-2144-1-04

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

Carl Walrond, Dalmatians – Work and war: 1890 to 1930, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/272/dalmatians-and-maori-at-houhora (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 1 July 2024.

Comments

SUSAN BARKER
22 July 2010
hi i think the dalmatians are KOOL AS!!!