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Statue of A'a from Rurutu : ウィキペディア英語版 | Statue of A'a from Rurutu
The Statue of A'a from Rurutu is a famous wooden sculpture of the god A'a that was made on the Pacific island of Rurutu in the Austral archipelago. The idol was given to English missionaries in the early nineteenth century as the local population converted to Christianity. It was eventually acquired by the British Museum in 1911.〔(British Museum Highlights )〕 ==Provenance== The wooden figure of A'a was made on the island of Rurutu in the late eighteenth century. A'a was one of the principal deities worshiped on the island, one of the Austral Islands that now form part of French Polynesia. Europeans started visiting the islands in the early nineteenth century, as part of the colonisation of territories in the Pacific. This went hand-in-hand with mass conversion of the population to Christianity. At that time British missionaries were very active in the area and it is recorded that this idol was give up to the London Missionary Society in the 1820s. The LMS initially loaned their important collection of Polynesian sculptures to the British Museum but later sold it to the national collection in 1911.〔(British Museum Collection )〕
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