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Kōrero: Cooking

Male cook, Ahipara gumfields, 1910s

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Male cook, Ahipara gumfields, 1910s

Though most cooks were women, men performed this role when women were absent. This man is proudly displaying huge rounds of bread cooked in a camp oven (pictured at his feet) on the Ahipara gumfields sometime in the 1910s.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

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

Reference: 1/1-006360-G

by Northwood Brothers

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

David Burton, Cooking – Who cooks?, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/38552/male-cook-ahipara-gumfields-1910s (accessed 2 July 2026).

He kōrero nā David Burton, i tāngia i te 18 June 2012.