ADJ.
cooked
KUMARA + NOUN
polynesian
PREP.
from
noun
The sweet potato.
They introduced the gourd, taro and kumara from the Polynesian Islands to the New Zealanders.
“And once, a woman threw a piece of cooked kumara at me and I ducked, and laughed…”
name
A small town on the West Coast, South Island, New Zealand.
To die.
In contrast to everything else that these migrant people had lugged from island to island, the kūmara had not come from the west.