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The painting was executed in Paris on
Gauguin's return from his first period of living and working in Tahiti and is more imaginative than real. It depicts a central carved idol of the goddess Hina standing on a rock by the beach around which human figures are arranged in a symmetrical pattern. On the
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left two women are bearing votive offerings and on the right two others are dancing the
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