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The largely forgotten history of how early Pākehā mixed with Māori

By Sally Blundell
New Zealand Listener·
11 mins to read

From the archives: If you’re still recovering from overindulging on Christmas Day, consider what the first Christmas dinner in Aotearoa was like - and what the records and artefacts left behind reveal about early Māori and Pākehā encounters. In 2019, Sally Blundell spoke to archaeologist Ian Smith about the broken, the worn out, the discarded and the abandoned – buttons, iron nails, broken dolls, lacing hooks, chips of dinnerware and hundreds of clay tobacco pipes - and the stories they

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