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Story: Te Māori i te ohanga – Māori in the economy

Taking a pig to market

A Māori trader makes his way to market with a sow he is planning to trade. The arrival of European settlements and towns in the mid-1800s provided an important market for Māori produce and goods.

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Basil Keane, Te Māori i te ohanga – Māori in the economy – Māori enterprise, 1840 to 1860, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/25768/taking-a-pig-to-market (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Basil Keane, published 12 April 2010.