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ID: 901002601
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002601
Record Type: Character/Person

Hinetakurua (Maori character)

Note: One of the two wives of the sun, with whom the sun spent the winter months; associated with the star Sirius.

Names:
Hinetakurua (Maori character) (preferred,English-P)
Hinetakurua (Maori character) (Maori-P)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Pacific Islander iconography> (P)
........<Pacific Islander characters> (P)
............Hinetakurua (Maori character) (P)
Other Relationships:
identified as .... Sirius
..... ULAN Candidate

Sources:
Hinetakurua (Maori character)
................Te Papa online (2000-)
................Te aka. Maori Dictionary online (2000-)
................Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand [online] (2012-)

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