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Tagaloa – Samoa

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Tagaloa – Samoa

This is ‘Tangaroa’s conversation with Tui’ by Michel Tuffery. It conveys a Pasifika world view as the artist is a New Zealander with Samoan heritage. In Samoa, Tangaroa is known as Tagaloa.

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Rāwiri Taonui, Whakapapa – genealogy – Whakapapa with links to Polynesia, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/30905/tagaloa-samoa (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Rāwiri Taonui, published 3 May 2011, updated 1 July 2015.