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Kōrero: Beach culture

Collecting cockles

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Collecting cockles

Children dig for cockles at Paihia in the Bay of Islands in 1969. Māori continued to collect seafood along the beach through the 20th century.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: AAQT 6539/A89,083

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Jock Phillips, Beach culture – The beach and food, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/9105/collecting-cockles (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.