Whatas, or Patukas, storehouses for food. Plate 30. From the book: The New Zealanders

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Whatas, or Patukas, storehouses for food. Plate 30. From the book: The New Zealanders

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PLATE XXX. WHATAS, OR PATUKAS, STOREHOUSES FOR FOOD. IT is customary amongst the New Zealanders to erect within their Pahs, or about their Kaingas and plantations, storehouses for the reception of food, and the preservation of maize, kumeras, and other seeds and roots: these storehouses are universally elevated from the ground by one or more posts, in order to preserve their contents from the destructive attacks of the native rat, which is extremely numerous in some parts of the country; they...

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Date created

1847

Creator

George French Angas

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https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1483267

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printing paper / printing ink / colour lithographs / Māori

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