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Kōrero: Thermal pools and spas

Cooking

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Three Māori women cooking food in flax kits in a hot pool

This photograph of three Māori women wearing traditional dress was taken for tourism publicity at Rotorua in the 1920s. The women are cooking food in flax kits in a hot pool.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PAColl-6585-43

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

Nancy Swarbrick, Thermal pools and spas – A valued resource, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/6442/cooking (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.