  We prove that when assuming suitable non-degeneracy conditions equivariant
harmonic maps into symmetric spaces of non-compact type depend in a real
analytic fashion on the representation they are associated to. The main tool in
the proof is the construction of a family of deformation maps which are used to
transform equivariant harmonic maps into maps mapping into a fixed target space
so that a real analytic version of the results in \cite{EellsLemaire} can be
applied.
