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ID: 901002586
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002586
Record Type: Character/Person

Rongo (Maori deity)

Note: Maori deity of cultivated plants, especially kumara. He is associated with peace, likely because the difficult cultivation of kumara is best performed in times of peace.

Names:
Rongo (Maori deity) (preferred,English-P,D,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Pacific Islander iconography> (P)
........<Pacific Islander characters> (P)
............Rongo (Maori deity) (I)
Other Relationships:
culture/religion is .... Maori (culture or style)
.....(New Zealand, Polynesian, Oceanic, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
role/characteristic is .... deity
.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
affiliated/associated with .... kumara (plant variety)
.....(Ipomoea batatas (species), Ipomoea (genus), Convolvulaceae (family), Solanales (order), Magnoliopsida (class), Angiospermae (division), Plantae (kingdom), Eukaryota (domain), living organisms (entities), Living Organisms (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Rongo (Maori deity)
................Te Papa online (2000-)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Te Papa online (2000-)
................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongo#/media/File:Image_from_page_290_of_%22History_and_traditions_of_the_Maoris_of_the_west_coast,_North_Island_of_New_Zealand_prior_to_1840%22_(1910).jpg

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