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Story: Pigs and the pork industry

Boar-hunting trophies

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Boar-hunting trophies

This collection of boar tusks and heads on a fence was photographed in the 1920s or 1930s, when pig hunting was popular and pigs abundant.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PAColl-8230

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Allan Gillingham, Pigs and the pork industry – Early farming and feral breeds, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/15428/boar-hunting-trophies (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Allan Gillingham, published 1 March 2009.