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The Deity Figure from Rarotonga is an important wooden sculpture of a male god that was made on the Pacific island of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. The cult image was given to English missionaries in the early nineteenth century as the local population converted to Christianity. It was eventually bought by the British Museum in 1911.

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  • The Deity Figure from Rarotonga is an important wooden sculpture of a male god that was made on the Pacific island of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. The cult image was given to English missionaries in the early nineteenth century as the local population converted to Christianity. It was eventually bought by the British Museum in 1911. (en)
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  • Late eighteenth or early nineteenth century AD (en)
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  • The deity figure from the island of Rarotonga, Cook Islands in the British Museum (en)
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  • Wood (en)
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  • Deity Figure from Rarotonga (en)
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  • AOA LMS 169 (en)
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  • The Deity Figure from Rarotonga is an important wooden sculpture of a male god that was made on the Pacific island of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. The cult image was given to English missionaries in the early nineteenth century as the local population converted to Christianity. It was eventually bought by the British Museum in 1911. (en)
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  • Deity Figure from Rarotonga (en)
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