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Rākaihautū and Rakihouia eventually settled on Horomaka (Banks Peninsula) and their descendants, the Waitaha people, made the surrounding land their home. This man, photographed in 1948, is hanging up eels to dry at Te Roto o Wairewa / Lake Forsyth, just south of Banks Peninsula.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Tourist and Publicity Department Collection
Reference: 1/2-040042; F
by K. V. Bigwood
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