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Kōrero: Māori foods – kai Māori

Ngā rua kūmara, i te tau 1930

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Kūmara storage pits, 1930

I te whakamahia tonutia ēnei rua kūmara e toru i te wā i tangohia ai tēnei whakaahua i te tau 1930. He mea kari ngā rua ki te taha tonu o tētahi pari ki Ruatāhuna. Kua tāpirihia ngā kūaha me ētahi rākau toko. I te makanga o ngā kūmara ki roto i te rua, me tūpato te tangata kia kaua e tīhore i te kiri. Mā te rua kūmara hei tiaki ngā kai o te hauhake mai i te mātao, te kiore me ngā tāhae.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Albert Percy Godber Collection (PA-Group-00048)

Reference: G-1682-1/2-APG

by Albert Percy Godber

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.

Ngā whakaahua me ngā rauemi katoa o tēnei kōrero

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Charles Royal rāua ko Jenny Kaka-Scott, Māori foods – kai Māori – Traditional cooking and preserving, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/40255/kumara-storage-pits-1930 (accessed 26 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Charles Royal rāua ko Jenny Kaka-Scott, i tāngia i te 3 December 2012.