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ID: 901001784
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001784
Record Type: Character/Person

Ukuku (Inca character)

Note: Bear in the Andean version of the widespread Amerindian Bear's Wife story, where a bear assumes human form and takes a human girl as wife.

Names:
Ukuku (Inca character) (preferred,English-P,D,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Amerindian iconography> (P)
........<Inca iconography> (P)
............<Inca characters> (P)
................Ukuku (Inca character) (I)
Related Iconography:
is actor for .... Bear's Wife and Her Children
..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Amerindian iconography, General Amerindian iconography, General Amerindian narratives, Bear's Wife and Her Children (Amerindian narrative)) [901001783]

Other Relationships:
symbolic attribute is .... Term Not Found
..... AAT Candidate
role/characteristic is .... protagonist
.....(people by activity, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
located in .... Andean region
.....(South America) (TGN)
role/characteristic is .... legendary character
.....(characters (people by activity), people by activity, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Ukuku (Inca character)
................Steele, Handbook of Inca Mythology (2004) 105 ff.
................Dumbarton Oaks online (2002-)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Steele, Handbook of Inca Mythology (2004) 105

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