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Tangaroa carving, Cook Islands

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Tangaroa carving, Cook Islands

Tangaroa is the Cook Islands god of the sea. An image representing a carved figure of Tangaroa is shown on this one-dollar coin.

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Manuka Henare, Te mahi kai – food production economics – Initial settlement, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/20251/tangaroa-carving-cook-islands (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Manuka Henare, published 1 March 2009.