Tangaroa
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This item is an image. It was created by Ani O'Neill on or around the date 01 January, 1992.
This is the best description of this item that we could find:This essay originally appeared in New Zealand Art at Te Papa (Te Papa Press, 2018). Before the introduction of Christianity, Cook Islands people worshipped a pantheon of gods and deities. On some islands, Tangaroa was considered the principal god of the sea and of creation. Images of him took many forms and were made from stone, wood, shell, pandanus leaf, tapa (bark cloth) and human hair. On the islands of Rarotonga and Aitutaki, he took human form in wooden figures carved by ta‘unga (speci...
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