Other formats

    TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

Discoverers of the Cook Islands and the Names They Gave

This Rarotongan ironwood image in the British Museum is labelled: ‘Te Rongo and his three sons’. There is no record that the Rarotongan god Te Rongo had three sons, but the Mangaian god Rongo was the Father of the three ancestors of the Ngariki tribe. — (After photographs in Poignant's Oceanic Mythology, opposite inside frontcover, and p. 36)

Previous Figure | Table of Contents | Figure in Context | Next Figure

This Rarotongan ironwood image in the British Museum is labelled: ‘Te Rongo and his three sons’. There is no record that the Rarotongan god Te Rongo had three sons, but the Mangaian god Rongo was the Father of the three ancestors of the Ngariki tribe. (After photographs in Poignant's Oceanic Mythology, opposite inside frontcover, and p. 36).

This Rarotongan ironwood image in the British Museum is labelled: ‘Te Rongo and his three sons’. There is no record that the Rarotongan god Te Rongo had three sons, but the Mangaian god Rongo was the Father of the three ancestors of the Ngariki tribe.
(After photographs in Poignant's Oceanic Mythology, opposite inside frontcover, and p. 36).

Previous Figure | Table of Contents | Figure in Context | Next Figure