Rapa Nui

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Rapa Nui

 

 

 

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hillside near the quarry

 

broken before it was fully cut from the quarry

 

from the quarry to a standing position

 

Images carved from the hillside and erected.

 

 

method of erection

 

Pukao are the hats or topknots formerly placed on top of some moai statues

 

 

eye detail

 

 

 

 

 

Ahu Akivi is an ahu with seven moai on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Chilean Polynesia. The ahu and its moai were restored in 1960 by the American archaeologist William Mulloy and his Chilean colleague, Gonzalo Figueroa García-Huidobro. Mulloy's work on the Akivi-Vaiteka Complex was supported by the Fulbright Foundation and by grants from the University of Wyoming, the University of Chile and the International Fund for Monuments. Ahu Akivi also gives its name to one of the seven regions of the Rapa Nui National Park.

 

 

 

Petroglyphs on Basalt rocks at Orongo.
A Make-make at the base and two birdmen higher up

  

In the mythology of Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Make-make was the creator of humanity and the chief god of the bird cult.

 

    

Makemake with two birdmen. Carved from red scoria

 

 

 


 

island which figures in Rapa Nui mythology

 

tupa

Some 1,233 prehistoric stone "houses" called tupa in earlier times and hare moa ("chicken house") later, are more conspicuous than the remains of the prehistoric human houses which only had stone foundations.

 

The entrances were very low, and getting in required crawling.

 

Lake in old crater

 

 

 

 

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Typical Statues of Easter Island

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