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id="toc-Birdman_cult-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Moai_Kavakava" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Moai_Kavakava"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>Moai Kavakava</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Moai_Kavakava-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1722–1868_toppling_of_the_moai" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1722–1868_toppling_of_the_moai"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5</span> <span>1722–1868 toppling of the moai</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1722–1868_toppling_of_the_moai-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Removal_of_moai_from_Easter_Island" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Removal_of_moai_from_Easter_Island"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.6</span> <span>Removal of moai from Easter Island</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Removal_of_moai_from_Easter_Island-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Replicas_and_casts" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Replicas_and_casts"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.7</span> <span>Replicas and casts</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Replicas_and_casts-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Preservation_and_restoration" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Preservation_and_restoration"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Preservation and restoration</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Preservation_and_restoration-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Unicode_character" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Unicode_character"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Unicode character</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Unicode_character-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" title="Table of Contents" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" 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title="مواي – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="مواي" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo%C3%A1i" title="Moái – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Moái" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87" title="মোয়াই – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="মোয়াই" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B0%D1%96" title="Мааі – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Мааі" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bi mw-list-item"><a href="https://bi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Bislama" lang="bi" hreflang="bi" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Bislama" data-language-local-name="Bislama" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bislama</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%B0%D0%B8" title="Моаи – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Моаи" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-se mw-list-item"><a href="https://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Northern Sami" lang="se" hreflang="se" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Davvisámegiella" data-language-local-name="Northern Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Davvisámegiella</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moaid" title="Moaid – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Moaid" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%BF%CE%AC%CE%B9" title="Μοάι – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μοάι" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo%C3%A1i" title="Moái – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Moái" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A2%DB%8C" title="موآی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="موآی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa%C3%AF" title="Moaï – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Moaï" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AA%A8%EC%95%84%EC%9D%B4" title="모아이 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="모아이" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-haw mw-list-item"><a href="https://haw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo%CA%BBai" title="Moʻai – Hawaiian" lang="haw" hreflang="haw" data-title="Moʻai" data-language-autonym="Hawaiʻi" data-language-local-name="Hawaiian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hawaiʻi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%B8%D5%A1%D5%AB" title="Մոաի – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Մոաի" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%90%D7%99" title="מואי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מואי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%9D%E1%83%90%E1%83%98" title="მოაი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მოაი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%B0%D0%B8" title="Моаи – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Моаи" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%B0%D0%B8" title="Моаи – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Моаи" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%88" title="मोअई – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="मोअई" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A6%D8%A7%DB%8C" title="موئای – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="موئای" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" 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href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%B0%D0%B8" title="Моаи – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Моаи" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Moai" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" title="Moai – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Moai" 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class="vector-body" aria-labelledby="firstHeading" data-mw-ve-target-container> <div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Monolithic human figures on Easter Island</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the monolithic statues of Easter Island. For the Japanese statues based on moai, see <a href="/wiki/Moyai_statue" title="Moyai statue">Moyai statue</a>. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Moai_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Moai (disambiguation)">Moai (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AhuTongariki.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/AhuTongariki.JPG/330px-AhuTongariki.JPG" decoding="async" width="330" height="248" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/AhuTongariki.JPG/500px-AhuTongariki.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/AhuTongariki.JPG/660px-AhuTongariki.JPG 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Moai facing inland at <a href="/wiki/Ahu_Tongariki" title="Ahu Tongariki">Ahu Tongariki</a>, restored by Chilean archaeologist Claudio Cristino in the 1990s</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Moai</b> or <b>moʻai</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span><span title="/./: syllable break">.</span><span title="/aɪ/: 'i' in 'tide'">aɪ</span></span>/</a></span> <span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" class="noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" data-ooui="{"_":"mw.Phonos.PhonosButton","href":"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/transcoded\/a\/a7\/En-moai.oga\/En-moai.oga.mp3","rel":["nofollow"],"framed":false,"icon":"volumeUp","data":{"ipa":"","text":"","lang":"en","wikibase":"","file":"En-moai.oga"},"classes":["noexcerpt","ext-phonos-PhonosButton","ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel"]}"><a role="button" tabindex="0" href="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a7/En-moai.oga/En-moai.oga.mp3" rel="nofollow" aria-label="Play audio" title="Play audio" class="oo-ui-buttonElement-button"><span class="oo-ui-iconElement-icon oo-ui-icon-volumeUp"></span><span class="oo-ui-labelElement-label"></span><span class="oo-ui-indicatorElement-indicator oo-ui-indicatorElement-noIndicator"></span></a></span><sup class="ext-phonos-attribution noexcerpt navigation-not-searchable"><a href="/wiki/File:En-moai.oga" title="File:En-moai.oga">ⓘ</a></sup></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">MOH</span>-eye</i></a>; <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>: <i lang="es">moái</i>; <a href="/wiki/Rapa_Nui_language" title="Rapa Nui language">Rapa Nui</a>: <i lang="rap">moʻai</i>, <small><a href="/wiki/Literal_translation" title="Literal translation">lit.</a> </small>'statue') are <a href="/wiki/Monolith" title="Monolith">monolithic</a> human figures carved by the <a href="/wiki/Rapa_Nui_people" title="Rapa Nui people">Rapa Nui people</a> on <a href="/wiki/Easter_Island" title="Easter Island">Rapa Nui (Easter Island)</a> in eastern <a href="/wiki/Polynesia" title="Polynesia">Polynesia</a> between the years 1250 and 1500.<sup id="cite_ref-fischer_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fischer-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nearly half are still at <a href="/wiki/Rano_Raraku" title="Rano Raraku">Rano Raraku</a>, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called <a href="/wiki/Ahu_(Easter_Island)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ahu (Easter Island)">ahu</a> around the island's perimeter. Almost all moai have overly large heads, which account for three-eighths of the size of the whole statue. They also have no legs. The moai are chiefly the living faces (<i>aringa ora</i>) of deified ancestors (<i>aringa ora ata tepuna</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The statues still gazed inland across their clan lands <a href="/wiki/History_of_Easter_Island#European_contacts" title="History of Easter Island">when Europeans first visited the island in 1722</a>, but all of them had fallen by the latter part of the 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Statues_That_Walked_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Statues_That_Walked-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The moai were toppled in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, possibly as a result of European contact or <a href="/wiki/Endemic_warfare" class="mw-redirect" title="Endemic warfare">internecine tribal wars</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The production and transportation of the more than 900 statues<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is considered a remarkable creative and physical feat.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The tallest moai erected, called <i>Paro</i>, was almost 10 metres (33 ft) high and weighed 82 tonnes (81 long tons; 90 short tons).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The heaviest moai erected was a shorter but squatter moai at <a href="/wiki/Ahu_Tongariki" title="Ahu Tongariki">Ahu Tongariki</a>, weighing 86 tonnes (85 long tons; 95 short tons). One unfinished sculpture, if completed, would be approximately 21 m (69 ft) tall, with a weight of about 145–165 tonnes (143–162 long tons; 160–182 short tons).<sup id="cite_ref-Pbs.org_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pbs.org-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Statues are still being discovered as of 2023<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moai&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>.<sup id="cite_ref-lake_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lake-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description">Description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moai&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Moai_Rano_raraku.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Moai_Rano_raraku.jpg/250px-Moai_Rano_raraku.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Moai_Rano_raraku.jpg/330px-Moai_Rano_raraku.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Moai_Rano_raraku.jpg/500px-Moai_Rano_raraku.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1944" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>Moai set in the hillside at <a href="/wiki/Rano_Raraku" title="Rano Raraku">Rano Raraku</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The moai are monolithic statues, and their minimalist style reflects forms found throughout <a href="/wiki/Polynesia" title="Polynesia">Polynesia</a>. Moai are carved from volcanic tuff (solidified <a href="/wiki/Volcanic_ash" title="Volcanic ash">ash</a>). The human figures would be outlined in the rock wall first, then chipped away until only the image was left.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The over-large heads (a three-to-five ratio between the head and the trunk, a sculptural trait consistent with the Polynesian belief in the sanctity of chiefly the head) have heavy brows and elongated noses with a distinctive fish-hook-shaped curl of the nostrils. The lips protrude in a thin pout. Like the nose, the ears are elongated and oblong in form. The jaw lines stand out against the truncated neck. The torsos are heavy; sometimes the clavicles are subtly outlined in stone too. The arms are carved in <a href="/wiki/Bas_relief" class="mw-redirect" title="Bas relief">bas relief</a> and rest against the body in various positions, hands and long slender fingers resting along the crests of the hips, meeting at the hami (loincloth), with the thumbs sometimes pointing towards the navel. Generally, the anatomical features of the backs are not detailed, but sometimes bear a ring and girdle motif on the buttocks and lower back. Except for one kneeling moai, the statues do not have clearly visible legs. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cantera_de_moais.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Cantera_de_moais.jpg/250px-Cantera_de_moais.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="87" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Cantera_de_moais.jpg/330px-Cantera_de_moais.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Cantera_de_moais.jpg/500px-Cantera_de_moais.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2821" data-file-height="1117" /></a><figcaption>Moʻai quarry at Rano Raraku</figcaption></figure> <p>Though moai are whole-body statues,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> they are often referred to as "Easter Island heads" in some popular literature. This is partly because of the disproportionate size of most moai heads, and partly because many of the images for the island showing upright moai are of the statues on the slopes of <a href="/wiki/Rano_Raraku" title="Rano Raraku">Rano Raraku</a>, many of which are buried to their shoulders, which has led to a popular misconception that they don't have bodies.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of the "heads" at Rano Raraku have been excavated and their bodies seen, and observed to have markings that had been protected from erosion by their burial. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The average height of the moai is about 4 m (13 ft), with the average width at the base around 1.6 m (5.2 ft). These massive creations usually weigh around 12.5 tonnes (13.8 tons) each. </p><p>All but 53 of the more than 900 moai known to date were carved from <a href="/wiki/Tuff" title="Tuff">tuff</a> (a compressed volcanic ash) from <a href="/wiki/Rano_Raraku" title="Rano Raraku">Rano Raraku</a>, where 394 moai in varying states of completion are still visible today. There are also 13 moai carved from <a href="/wiki/Basalt" title="Basalt">basalt</a>, 22 from <a href="/wiki/Trachyte" title="Trachyte">trachyte</a> and 17 from fragile red <a href="/wiki/Scoria" title="Scoria">scoria</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the end of carving, the builders would rub the statue with <a href="/wiki/Pumice" title="Pumice">pumice</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Characteristics">Characteristics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moai&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Characteristics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ahu_Tahai.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Ahu_Tahai.jpg/170px-Ahu_Tahai.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Ahu_Tahai.jpg/255px-Ahu_Tahai.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Ahu_Tahai.jpg/340px-Ahu_Tahai.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1704" data-file-height="2272" /></a><figcaption>Re-erected tuff moai at Ahu Tahai with restored <a href="/wiki/Pukao" title="Pukao">pukao</a> and replica eyes</figcaption></figure> <p>Easter Island statues are known for their large, broad noses and big chins, along with rectangle-shaped ears and deep eye slits. Their bodies are normally <a href="/wiki/Squatting_position" title="Squatting position">squatting</a>, with their arms resting in different positions and are without legs. The majority of the ahu are found along the coast and face inland towards the community. There are some inland ahu such as <a href="/wiki/Ahu_Akivi" title="Ahu Akivi">Ahu Akivi</a>. These moai face the community but given the small size of the island, also appear to face the coast.<sup id="cite_ref-Pbs.org_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pbs.org-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Eyes">Eyes</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moai&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Eyes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1979, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sergio_Rapu_Haoa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sergio Rapu Haoa (page does not exist)">Sergio Rapu Haoa</a> and a team of <a href="/wiki/Archaeologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Archaeologist">archaeologists</a> discovered that the hemispherical or deep elliptical eye sockets were designed to hold coral eyes with either black <a href="/wiki/Obsidian" title="Obsidian">obsidian</a> or red scoria pupils.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The discovery was made by collecting and reassembling broken fragments of white coral that were found at the various sites. Subsequently, previously uncategorized finds in the Easter Island museum were re-examined and recategorized as eye fragments. It is thought that the moai with carved eye sockets were probably allocated to the <a href="/wiki/Ahu_(Easter_Island)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ahu (Easter Island)">ahu</a> and ceremonial sites, suggesting that a selective Rapa Nui hierarchy was attributed to the moai design until its demise with the advent of the religion revolving around the <a href="/wiki/Tangata_manu" title="Tangata manu">tangata manu</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Symbolism">Symbolism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moai&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Symbolism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many archaeologists suggest that "[the] statues were thus symbols of authority and power, both religious and political. However, they were not only symbols. To the people who erected and used them, they were actual repositories of sacred spirit. Carved stone and wooden objects in ancient Polynesian religions, when properly fashioned and ritually prepared, were believed to be charged by a magical spiritual essence called mana."<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Archaeologists believe that the statues were a representation of the ancient Polynesians' ancestors. The moai statues face away from the ocean and towards the villages as if to watch over the people. The exception is the seven Ahu Akivi which face out to sea to help travelers find the island. There is a legend that says there were seven men who waited for their king to arrive.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A study in 2019 concluded that ancient people believed that quarrying of the moai might be related to improving soil fertility and thereby critical food supplies.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Pukao_topknots_and_headdresses"><i>Pukao</i> topknots and headdresses</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moai&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Pukao topknots and headdresses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Pukao" title="Pukao">Pukao</a></div> <p>The more recent moai had <i><a href="/wiki/Pukao" title="Pukao">pukao</a></i> on their heads, which represent the <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_people" title="Māori people">topknot</a> of the chieftains. According to local tradition, the <a href="/wiki/Mana_(Oceanian_mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mana (Oceanian mythology)">mana</a> was preserved in the hair. The pukao were carved out of red scoria, a very light rock from a quarry at <a href="/wiki/Puna_Pau" title="Puna Pau">Puna Pau</a>. Red itself is considered a sacred color in Polynesia. The added pukao suggest a further status to the moai.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Rise_2013_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Rise_2013-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Markings">Markings</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moai&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Markings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:View_of_the_back_of_a_moai_with_petroglyph_carvings,_partially_excavated;_a_South_American_man_is_sitting_on_the_ground,_with_one_bare_foot_on_the_shoulder_of_the_sculpture;_Rano_Raraku,_Oc,G.T.1465,_Mana_Expedition_to_Easter_Island,_British_Museum.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/View_of_the_back_of_a_moai_with_petroglyph_carvings%2C_partially_excavated%3B_a_South_American_man_is_sitting_on_the_ground%2C_with_one_bare_foot_on_the_shoulder_of_the_sculpture%3B_Rano_Raraku%2C_Oc%2CG.T.1465%2C_Mana_Expedition_to_Easter_Island%2C_British_Museum.jpg/250px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="254" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/View_of_the_back_of_a_moai_with_petroglyph_carvings%2C_partially_excavated%3B_a_South_American_man_is_sitting_on_the_ground%2C_with_one_bare_foot_on_the_shoulder_of_the_sculpture%3B_Rano_Raraku%2C_Oc%2CG.T.1465%2C_Mana_Expedition_to_Easter_Island%2C_British_Museum.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/View_of_the_back_of_a_moai_with_petroglyph_carvings%2C_partially_excavated%3B_a_South_American_man_is_sitting_on_the_ground%2C_with_one_bare_foot_on_the_shoulder_of_the_sculpture%3B_Rano_Raraku%2C_Oc%2CG.T.1465%2C_Mana_Expedition_to_Easter_Island%2C_British_Museum.jpg/500px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="1119" /></a><figcaption>Petroglyphs on the back of an excavated moai.</figcaption></figure> <p>When first carved, the surface of the moai was polished smooth by rubbing with pumice. However, the easily worked tuff from which most moai were carved is easily eroded, such that the best place to see the surface detail is on the few moai carved from basalt or in photographs and other archaeological records of moai surfaces protected by burials.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Those moai that are less eroded typically have designs carved on their backs and posteriors. The <a href="/wiki/Katherine_Routledge" title="Katherine Routledge">Routledge</a> expedition of 1914 established a cultural link<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERoutledge1919220_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERoutledge1919220-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> between these designs and the island's traditional tattooing, which had been repressed by missionaries a half-century earlier. Until modern DNA analysis of the islanders and their ancestors, this was key scientific evidence that the moai had been carved by the Rapa Nui and not by a separate group from <a href="/wiki/South_America" title="South America">South America</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>At least some of the moai were painted. One moai in the collection of the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art" title="Metropolitan Museum of Art">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a> was decorated with a reddish pigment.<sup id="cite_ref-Kjellgren_Van_Tilburg_Kaeppler_2001_p._58_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kjellgren_Van_Tilburg_Kaeppler_2001_p._58-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Hoa_Hakananai%27a" title="Hoa Hakananai'a">Hoa Hakananai'a</a></i> was decorated with maroon and white paint until 1868, when it was removed from the island.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPitts201439–48_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPitts201439–48-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is now housed in the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a>, London, but demands have been made for its return to Rapa Nui.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moai&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Easter_Island_map-en.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Easter_Island_map-en.svg/220px-Easter_Island_map-en.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Easter_Island_map-en.svg/330px-Easter_Island_map-en.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Easter_Island_map-en.svg/440px-Easter_Island_map-en.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1750" data-file-height="1245" /></a><figcaption>Map of <a href="/wiki/Easter_Island" title="Easter Island">Easter Island</a> using moai to show locations of various <a href="/wiki/Easter_Island#Ahu_(stone_platforms)" title="Easter Island"><i>ahu</i></a></figcaption></figure> <p>The statues were carved by the aboriginal <a href="/wiki/Polynesians" title="Polynesians">Polynesians</a> of the island, mostly between 1250 and 1500.<sup id="cite_ref-fischer_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fischer-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition to representing <a href="/wiki/Veneration_of_the_dead" title="Veneration of the dead">deceased ancestors</a>, the moai, once they were erected on ahu, may also have been regarded as the embodiment of powerful living or former chiefs and important lineage status symbols. Each moai presented a status: "The larger the statue placed upon an ahu, the more mana the chief who commissioned it had."<sup id="cite_ref-The_Rise_2013_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Rise_2013-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The competition for grandest statue was ever prevalent in the culture of the Easter Islanders. The proof stems from the varying sizes of moai.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Rise_2013_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Rise_2013-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Completed statues were moved to ahu mostly on the coast, then erected, sometimes with pukao, red stone cylinders, on their heads. Moai must have been very time-consuming to craft and transport; not only would the actual carving of each statue require effort and resources, but the finished product was then hauled to its final location and erected. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Isla_de_Pascua,_Chile._03.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Isla_de_Pascua%2C_Chile._03.jpg/250px-Isla_de_Pascua%2C_Chile._03.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Isla_de_Pascua%2C_Chile._03.jpg/330px-Isla_de_Pascua%2C_Chile._03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Isla_de_Pascua%2C_Chile._03.jpg/500px-Isla_de_Pascua%2C_Chile._03.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>An incomplete moai in the quarry at <a href="/wiki/Rano_Raraku" title="Rano Raraku">Rano Raraku</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The quarries in <a href="/wiki/Rano_Raraku" title="Rano Raraku">Rano Raraku</a> appear to have been abandoned abruptly, with a litter of stone tools and many completed moai outside the quarry awaiting transport and almost as many incomplete statues still <i>in situ</i> as were installed on ahu. In the nineteenth century, this led to conjecture that the island was the remnant of a <a href="/wiki/Mu_(lost_continent)#Easter_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Mu (lost continent)">sunken continent</a> and that most completed moai were under the sea. That idea has long been debunked, and now it is generally believed that: </p> <ul><li>Some statues were rock carvings and never intended to be completed.</li> <li>Some were incomplete because, when <a href="/wiki/Inclusion_(mineral)" title="Inclusion (mineral)">inclusions</a> were encountered, the carvers would abandon a partial statue and start a new one.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERoutledge1919181_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERoutledge1919181-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tuff is a soft rock with occasional lumps of much harder rock included in it.</li> <li>Some completed statues at Rano Raraku were placed there permanently and not parked temporarily awaiting removal.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERoutledge1919186_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERoutledge1919186-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Some were indeed incomplete when the statue-building era came to an end.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Craftsmen">Craftsmen</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moai&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Craftsmen"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It is not known exactly which group in the communities were responsible for carving statues. Oral traditions suggest that the moai were carved either by a distinguished class of professional carvers who were comparable in status to high-ranking members of other Polynesian craft guilds, or, alternatively, by members of each clan. The oral histories show that the Rano Raraku quarry was subdivided into different territories for each clan. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Transportation">Transportation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moai&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Transportation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since the island was largely treeless by the time the Europeans first visited, the movement of the statues was a mystery for a long time. Study of fossil pollen and charcoal traces found in sediment cores collected in the island's three main crater lakes suggest that forests that originally covered the island were gradually logged between 800 and 1200 <a href="/wiki/Common_Era" title="Common Era">CE</a> (as the island was being settled by migrants from eastern Polynesia), then again in the decades or centuries before 1700.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ahu-Akivi-1.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Ahu-Akivi-1.JPG/250px-Ahu-Akivi-1.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Ahu-Akivi-1.JPG/330px-Ahu-Akivi-1.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Ahu-Akivi-1.JPG/500px-Ahu-Akivi-1.JPG 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Ahu_Akivi" title="Ahu Akivi">Ahu Akivi</a>, the furthest inland of all the ahu</figcaption></figure> <p>It is not exactly known how the moai were moved across the island, however, there are numerous studies and theories discussing the topic. Earlier researchers assumed that the process required human energy, ropes, and possibly wooden sledges (sleds) or rollers, as well as leveled tracks across the island (the "Easter Island roads"). Another theory suggests that the moai were placed on top of logs and were rolled to their destinations.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If that theory is correct, it would take 50–150 people to move the moai.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The most recent study demonstrates from the evidence in the archaeological record that the statues were harnessed with ropes from two sides and made to "walk" by tilting them from side to side while pulling forward, in a vertical way.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Statues_That_Walked_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Statues_That_Walked-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NatGeoJuly2012_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NatGeoJuly2012-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Oral histories recount how various natives used divine power to command the statues to walk. The earliest accounts say a king named Tuu Ku Ihu moved them with the help of the god <a href="/wiki/Makemake_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Makemake (mythology)">Makemake</a>, while later stories tell of a woman who lived alone on the mountain ordering them about at her will. Scholars currently support the theory that the main method was that the moai were "walked" upright (some assume by a rocking process), as laying it prone on a sledge (the method used by the Easter Islanders to move stone in the 1860s) would have required an estimated 1500 people to move the largest moai that had been successfully erected. In 1998, <a href="/wiki/Jo_Anne_Van_Tilburg" title="Jo Anne Van Tilburg">Jo Anne Van Tilburg</a> suggested fewer than half that number could do it by placing the sledge on lubricated rollers. In 1999, she supervised an experiment to move a nine-tonne moai. A replica was loaded on a sledge built in the shape of an <i>A</i> frame that was placed on rollers and 60 people pulled on several ropes in two attempts to tow the moai. The first attempt failed when the rollers jammed up. The second attempt succeeded when tracks were embedded in the ground. This was on flat ground and used <a href="/wiki/Eucalyptus" title="Eucalyptus">eucalyptus</a> wood rather than the native palm trees.<sup id="cite_ref-histchan-megamovers_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-histchan-megamovers-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MoaiProtectionSign.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/MoaiProtectionSign.jpg/250px-MoaiProtectionSign.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/MoaiProtectionSign.jpg/330px-MoaiProtectionSign.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/MoaiProtectionSign.jpg/500px-MoaiProtectionSign.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a><figcaption>Sign indicating the protected status of the moai</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1986, <a href="/wiki/Pavel_Pavel" title="Pavel Pavel">Pavel Pavel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl" title="Thor Heyerdahl">Thor Heyerdahl</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Kon-Tiki_Museum" title="Kon-Tiki Museum">Kon-Tiki Museum</a> experimented with a five-tonne moai and a nine-tonne moai. With a rope around the head of the statue and another around the base, using eight workers for the smaller statue and 16 for the larger, they "walked" the moai forward by swiveling and rocking it from side to side; however, the experiment was ended early due to damage to the statue bases from chipping. Despite the early end to the experiment, Thor Heyerdahl estimated that this method for a 20-tonne statue over Easter Island terrain would allow 320 feet (100 m) per day. Other scholars concluded that it was probably not the way the moai were moved due to the reported damage to the base caused by the "shuffling" motion.<sup id="cite_ref-histchan-megamovers_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-histchan-megamovers-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Around the same time, archaeologist <a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Love&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles Love (page does not exist)">Charles Love</a> experimented with a 10-tonne replica. His first experiment found rocking the statue to walk it was too unstable over more than a few hundred yards. He then found that placing the statue upright on two sled runners atop log rollers, 25 men were able to move the statue 150 feet (46 m) in two minutes. In 2003, further research indicated this method could explain supposedly regularly spaced post holes (his research on this claim has not yet been published) where the statues were moved over rough ground. He suggested the holes contained upright posts on either side of the path so that as the statue passed between them, they were used as cantilevers for poles to help push the statue up a slope without the requirement of extra people pulling on the ropes and similarly to slow it on the downward slope. The poles could also act as a brake when needed.<sup id="cite_ref-Flenley_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Flenley-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Based on detailed studies of the statues found along prehistoric roads, archaeologists <a href="/w/index.php?title=Terry_Hunt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Terry Hunt (page does not exist)">Terry Hunt</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Carl_Lipo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carl Lipo (page does not exist)">Carl Lipo</a> have shown that the pattern of breakage, form and position of statues is consistent with an upright hypothesis for transportation.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Statues_That_Walked_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Statues_That_Walked-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hunt and Lipo argue that when the statues were carved at a quarry, the sculptors left their bases wide and curved along the front edge. They showed that statues along the road have a center of mass that causes the statue to lean forward. As the statue tilts forward, it rocks sideways along its curved front edge and takes a step. Large flakes are seen broken off the sides of the bases. They argue that once the statue was walked down the road and installed in the landscape, the wide and curved base was carved down.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Statues_Walked_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Statues_Walked-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Terry Hunt of UH Manoa and Carl Lipo of California State University Long Beach have worked closely with Rapa Nui archaeologist Sergio Rapu to develop their theory of how the Rapa Nui people rope walked the moai. It was through their successful moai walking recreation that it was proven that it is fully possible that the moai were literally walked from their quarries to their final positions by ingenious use of ropes. Teams of workers would have worked to rock the moai back and forth, creating the walking motion and holding the moai upright.<sup id="cite_ref-NatGeoJuly2012_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NatGeoJuly2012-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NOVA_Easter_Island_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NOVA_Easter_Island-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If correct, it can be inferred that the fallen road moai were the result of the teams of balancers being unable to keep the statue upright, and it was presumably not possible to lift the statues again once knocked over.<sup id="cite_ref-Walk_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Walk-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the debate continues.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Birdman_cult">Birdman cult</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moai&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Birdman cult"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Tangata_manu" title="Tangata manu">Tangata manu</a></div> <p>Originally, Easter Islanders had a paramount chief or single leader.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Through the years the power levels veered from sole chiefs to a warrior class known as matatoʻa. The <a href="/wiki/Shapeshifting" title="Shapeshifting">therianthropic</a> figure of a half bird and half-man was the symbol of the matatoʻa; the distinct character connected the sacred site of <a href="/wiki/Orongo" title="Orongo">Orongo</a>. The new cult prompted battles of tribes over worship of ancestry. Creating the moai was one way the islanders would honor their ancestors; during the height of the birdman cult there is evidence which suggests that the construction of moai stopped. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stone_Exhumed_From_Orongo,_1914._Bird-man_in_low_relief_with_egg_in_hand._Length_of_carving,_36.5_cm._British_Museum,_The_Mystery_of_Easter_Island,_published_1919.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Stone_Exhumed_From_Orongo%2C_1914._Bird-man_in_low_relief_with_egg_in_hand._Length_of_carving%2C_36.5_cm._British_Museum%2C_The_Mystery_of_Easter_Island%2C_published_1919.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Stone_Exhumed_From_Orongo%2C_1914._Bird-man_in_low_relief_with_egg_in_hand._Length_of_carving%2C_36.5_cm._British_Museum%2C_The_Mystery_of_Easter_Island%2C_published_1919.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Stone_Exhumed_From_Orongo%2C_1914._Bird-man_in_low_relief_with_egg_in_hand._Length_of_carving%2C_36.5_cm._British_Museum%2C_The_Mystery_of_Easter_Island%2C_published_1919.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1917" data-file-height="1264" /></a><figcaption>Petroglyph of a birdman with an egg in hand.</figcaption></figure> <p>"One of the most fascinating sights at Orongo are the hundreds of petroglyphs carved with birdman and Makemake images. Carved into solid basalt, they have resisted ages of harsh weather. It has been suggested that the images represent birdman competition winners. Over 480 birdman petroglyphs have been found on the island, mostly around Orongo."<sup id="cite_ref-Mysterious_Places_2013_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mysterious_Places_2013-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Orongo, the site of the cult's festivities, was a dangerous landscape which consisted of a "narrow ridge between a 1,000-foot (300 m) drop into the ocean on one side and a deep crater on the other". Considered the sacred spot of Orongo, Mata Ngarau was the location where birdman priests prayed and chanted for a successful egg hunt. "The purpose of the birdman contest was to obtain the first egg of the season from the offshore islet Motu Nui. Contestants descended the sheer cliffs of Orongo and swam to Motu Nui where they awaited the coming of the birds. Having procured an egg, the contestant swam back and presented it to his sponsor, who then was declared birdman for that year, an important status position."<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Moai_Kavakava">Moai Kavakava</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moai&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Moai Kavakava"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Moai_kavakava" title="Moai kavakava">Moai kavakava</a></div> <p>These figures are much smaller than the better-known stone moai. They are made of wood and have a small, slender aspect, giving them a sad appearance. These figures are believed to have been made after the civilization on Rapa Nui began to collapse, which is why they seem to have a more emaciated appearance to them.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1722–1868_toppling_of_the_moai"><span id="1722.E2.80.931868_toppling_of_the_moai"></span>1722–1868 toppling of the moai</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moai&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 1722–1868 toppling of the moai"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Toppled_moai.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Toppled_moai.jpg/220px-Toppled_moai.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Toppled_moai.jpg/330px-Toppled_moai.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Toppled_moai.jpg/440px-Toppled_moai.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="533" /></a><figcaption>Toppled moai</figcaption></figure> <p>In years after the arrival in 1722 of <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Roggeveen" title="Jacob Roggeveen">Jacob Roggeveen</a>, all of the moai that had been erected on ahu were toppled; some last standing statues were reported in 1838 by <a href="/wiki/Abel_Aubert_du_Petit-Thouars" title="Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars">Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars</a>, but none remained by 1868,<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> apart from the partially buried ones on the outer slopes of Rano Raraku. </p><p>Oral histories include an account of a clan pushing down a single moai in the night, but others tell of the "earth shaking", and there are indications that at least some of them fell down due to earthquakes.<sup id="cite_ref-Edmundo_Edwards,_Raul_Marchetti,_Leopoldo_Dominichetti_and_Oscar_Gonzales-Ferran_1996_1-15_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Edmundo_Edwards,_Raul_Marchetti,_Leopoldo_Dominichetti_and_Oscar_Gonzales-Ferran_1996_1-15-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of the moai toppled forward such that their faces were hidden, and often fell in such a way that their necks broke; others fell off the back of their platforms.<sup id="cite_ref-Edmundo_Edwards,_Raul_Marchetti,_Leopoldo_Dominichetti_and_Oscar_Gonzales-Ferran_1996_1-15_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Edmundo_Edwards,_Raul_Marchetti,_Leopoldo_Dominichetti_and_Oscar_Gonzales-Ferran_1996_1-15-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Today, about 50 moai have been re-erected on their ahus or at museums elsewhere.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Rapa Nui people were devastated by raids of slave traders who visited the island in 1862. Within a year, the individuals who remained on the island were sick or injured, and lacking leadership. The survivors of the <a href="/wiki/Slave_raid" class="mw-redirect" title="Slave raid">slave raids</a> had new company from missionaries, who converted the remaining populace to Christianity. Native Easter Islanders <a href="/wiki/Acculturation" title="Acculturation">began to be assimilated</a>, as their <a href="/wiki/Religious_perspectives_on_tattooing#Christianity" title="Religious perspectives on tattooing">tattoos and body paint were banned</a> by the new Christian proscriptions, and they were subjected to <a href="/wiki/Forced_displacement" title="Forced displacement">removal from a portion of their native lands</a> and made to reside on a <a href="/wiki/Internally_displaced_person" title="Internally displaced person">much smaller portion of the island</a>, while the rest was used for farming by the Peruvians. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Removal_of_moai_from_Easter_Island">Removal of moai from Easter Island</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moai&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Removal of moai from Easter Island"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Relocation_of_moai" title="Relocation of moai">Relocation of moai</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Moai_Easter_Island_InvMH-35-61-1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Moai_Easter_Island_InvMH-35-61-1.jpg/250px-Moai_Easter_Island_InvMH-35-61-1.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="256" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Moai_Easter_Island_InvMH-35-61-1.jpg/330px-Moai_Easter_Island_InvMH-35-61-1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Moai_Easter_Island_InvMH-35-61-1.jpg/500px-Moai_Easter_Island_InvMH-35-61-1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1160" data-file-height="1750" /></a><figcaption>Original moai at the <a href="/wiki/Louvre" title="Louvre">Louvre Museum</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Ten or more moai have been removed from Easter Island and transported to locations around the world, including the ones today displayed at the <a href="/wiki/Louvre" title="Louvre">Louvre Museum</a> in <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> and the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a> in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Replicas_and_casts">Replicas and casts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moai&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Replicas and casts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Several other locations displays replicas (casts) of moai, including the <a href="/wiki/Natural_History_Museum_of_Los_Angeles_County" title="Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County">Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County</a>; the <a href="/wiki/Auckland_War_Memorial_Museum" title="Auckland War Memorial Museum">Auckland Museum</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/American_Museum_of_Natural_History" title="American Museum of Natural History">American Museum of Natural History</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the campus of the <a href="/wiki/American_University" title="American University">American University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Preservation_and_restoration">Preservation and restoration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moai&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Preservation and restoration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:EasterIsland_1772.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/EasterIsland_1772.JPG/250px-EasterIsland_1772.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="241" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/EasterIsland_1772.JPG/330px-EasterIsland_1772.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/EasterIsland_1772.JPG/500px-EasterIsland_1772.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3750" data-file-height="5308" /></a><figcaption>Early European drawing of moai, in the lower half of a 1770 Spanish map of <a href="/wiki/Easter_Island" title="Easter Island">Easter Island</a>; the original manuscript maps of the Spanish expedition are in <a href="/wiki/Naval_Museum_of_Madrid" title="Naval Museum of Madrid">Naval Museum of Madrid</a> and in The <a href="/wiki/Jack_Daulton" title="Jack Daulton">Jack Daulton</a> Collection, US.</figcaption></figure> <p>From 1955 to 1978, an American archaeologist, <a href="/wiki/William_Mulloy" title="William Mulloy">William Mulloy</a>, undertook extensive investigation of the production, transportation and erection of Easter Island's <a href="/wiki/Monument" title="Monument">monumental statuary</a>. Mulloy's Rapa Nui projects include the investigation of the <a href="/wiki/Ahu_Akivi" title="Ahu Akivi">Akivi-Vaiteka Complex</a> and the physical restoration of <a href="/wiki/Ahu_Akivi" title="Ahu Akivi">Ahu Akivi</a> (1960); the investigation and restoration of <a href="/wiki/Ahu_Tahai" class="mw-redirect" title="Ahu Tahai">Ahu Ko Te Riku</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ahu_Tahai" class="mw-redirect" title="Ahu Tahai">Ahu Vai Uri</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Ahu_Tahai" class="mw-redirect" title="Ahu Tahai">Tahai Ceremonial Complex</a> (1970); the investigation and restoration of two <i>ahu</i> at <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hanga_Kio%27e&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hanga Kio'e (page does not exist)">Hanga Kio'e</a> (1972); the investigation and restoration of the ceremonial village at <a href="/wiki/Orongo" title="Orongo">Orongo</a> (1974) and numerous other archaeological surveys throughout the island. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Rapa_Nui_National_Park" title="Rapa Nui National Park">Rapa Nui National Park</a> and the moai were included in the 1972 <a href="/wiki/UN" class="mw-redirect" title="UN">UN</a> convention concerning the protection of the world's cultural and natural heritage<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> and consequently on the 1995 list of <a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a> <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">World Heritage Sites</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The statues have been mapped by a number of groups over the years, including efforts by <a href="/wiki/Father_Sebastian_Englert" class="mw-redirect" title="Father Sebastian Englert">Father Sebastian Englert</a> and Chilean researchers.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The EISP (Easter Island Statue Project) conducted research and documentation on many of the moai on Rapa Nui and the artifacts held in museums overseas. The purpose of the project is to understand the figures original use, context, and meaning, with the results being provided to the Rapa Nui families and the island's public agencies that are responsible for conservation and preservation of the moai. Other studies include work by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Britton_Shepardson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Britton Shepardson (page does not exist)">Britton Shepardson</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><a href="/w/index.php?title=Terry_L._Hunt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Terry L. Hunt (page does not exist)">Terry L. Hunt</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Carl_P._Lipo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carl P. Lipo (page does not exist)">Carl P. Lipo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2008, a Finnish tourist chipped a piece off the ear of one moai. The tourist was fined $17,000 in damages and was banned from the island for three years.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2020, an unoccupied truck rolled into a moai, destroying the statue and causing 'incalculable damage'.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2022, an unknown number of moai in <a href="/wiki/Rano_Raraku" title="Rano Raraku">Rano Raraku</a> were damaged by a wildfire that covered an area of around 150 to 250 acres. The Mayor of Rapa Nui, <a href="/wiki/Pedro_Edmunds_Paoa" title="Pedro Edmunds Paoa">Pedro Edmunds Paoa</a>, stated the fire was started intentionally. Other authorities believe the damage to some of the affected statues is "irreparable".<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 210px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 205px; height: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kneeled_moai_Easter_Island.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Tukuturi at Rano Raraku is the only kneeling moai and one of the few made of red scoria."><img alt="Tukuturi at Rano Raraku is the only kneeling moai and one of the few made of red scoria." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Kneeled_moai_Easter_Island.jpg/175px-Kneeled_moai_Easter_Island.jpg" decoding="async" width="175" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Kneeled_moai_Easter_Island.jpg/263px-Kneeled_moai_Easter_Island.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Kneeled_moai_Easter_Island.jpg/350px-Kneeled_moai_Easter_Island.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="967" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Rano_Raraku#Tukuturi" title="Rano Raraku">Tukuturi</a> at <a href="/wiki/Rano_Raraku" title="Rano Raraku">Rano Raraku</a> is the only kneeling moai and one of the few made of red <a href="/wiki/Scoria" title="Scoria">scoria</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 210px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 205px; height: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bildhodges.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Moai on Easter Island, a painting by William Hodges, 1775–76"><img alt="Moai on Easter Island, a painting by William Hodges, 1775–76" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Bildhodges.jpg/175px-Bildhodges.jpg" decoding="async" width="175" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Bildhodges.jpg/263px-Bildhodges.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Bildhodges.jpg/350px-Bildhodges.jpg 2x" data-file-width="650" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Moai on Easter Island, a painting by <a href="/wiki/William_Hodges" title="William Hodges">William Hodges</a>, 1775–76</div> </li> </ul><div style="clear:left;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Unicode_character">Unicode character</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moai&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Unicode character"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1092331828">@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .contains-special-characters{width:22em}}</style><div class="side-box metadata side-box-right contains-special-characters noprint selfref"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emoji_u263a.svg" title="File:Emoji u263a.svg"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Emoji_u263a.svg/40px-Emoji_u263a.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Emoji_u263a.svg/60px-Emoji_u263a.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Emoji_u263a.svg/120px-Emoji_u263a.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></a></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><b>This section contains <a href="/wiki/Emoji#In_Unicode" title="Emoji">Unicode emoticons or emojis</a>.</b> Without proper <a href="/wiki/Help:Special_characters" title="Help:Special characters">rendering support</a>, you may see <a href="/wiki/Specials_(Unicode_block)#Replacement_character" title="Specials (Unicode block)">question marks, boxes, or other symbols</a> instead of the intended characters.</div></div> </div> <p>In 2010, moai was included as a "moyai" <a href="/wiki/Emoji" title="Emoji">emoji</a> (🗿) in <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> version 6.0 under the code point <code>U+1F5FF</code> as "Japanese stone statue like Moai on Easter Island".<sup id="cite_ref-unicode_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unicode-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The official Unicode name for the emoji is spelt "moyai" as the emoji actually depicts the <a href="/wiki/Moyai_statue" title="Moyai statue"><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn">moyai</i></span> statue</a> near <a href="/wiki/Shibuya_Station" title="Shibuya Station">Shibuya Station</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The statue was a gift from the people of <a href="/wiki/Nii-jima" title="Nii-jima">Nii-jima</a> (an island 163 kilometres (101 mi) from Tokyo but administratively part of the city) inspired by Easter Island moai. The name of the statue was derived by combining "moai" and the dialectal Japanese word <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">moyai</i></span><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">催合い</span></span>) 'helping each other'</span>. </p><p>As the Unicode adopted proprietary emoji initially used by Japanese mobile carriers in the 1990s,<sup id="cite_ref-kddi-d_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kddi-d-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> inconsistent drawings were adopted for this emoji by various companies with proprietary emoji images, depicting either a moai or the <span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn">moyai</i></span> statue.<sup id="cite_ref-emojipedia_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-emojipedia-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Google and Microsoft emoji initially resembled the <span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn">moyai</i></span> statue in Tokyo; however, the emoji were later revised to resemble moai.<sup id="cite_ref-emojipedia_63-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-emojipedia-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Notwithstanding its intended purpose, the emoji is commonly used in <a href="/wiki/Internet_culture" title="Internet culture">Internet culture</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Internet_meme" title="Internet meme">meme</a> to represent a <a href="/wiki/Deadpan" title="Deadpan">deadpan</a> expression or used to convey that something is being said in a particularly sarcastic fashion.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:left;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moai&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marae" title="Marae">Marae</a>, the Polynesian ceremonial sites from which the moai and ahu traditions likely evolved.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiki" title="Tiki">Tiki</a>, carvings of the legendary first man among the Māori and other Western Polynesian cultures</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anito" title="Anito">Anito</a>, ancestor spirits and deities of the Filipino people, often carved into wooden or stone figures</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taotao_Mona" title="Taotao Mona">Taotao Mona</a>, ancestor spirits of the <a href="/wiki/Chamorro_people" title="Chamorro people">Chamorro people</a> in Micronesia</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chemamull" class="mw-redirect" title="Chemamull">Chemamull</a>, large funerary statues of the <a href="/wiki/Mapuche" title="Mapuche">Mapuche</a> of South America</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dol_hareubang" title="Dol hareubang">Dol hareubang</a>, large ancient stone statues on <a href="/wiki/Jeju_Island" title="Jeju Island">Jeju Island</a>, South Korea</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_largest_monoliths" title="List of largest monoliths">List of largest monoliths</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moai&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan" title="Buddhas of Bamiyan">Buddhas of Bamiyan</a> (507–554 CE)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chartres_Cathedral#Portals" title="Chartres Cathedral">Chartes Cathedral</a> (c. 1194–1250 CE)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konark_Sun_Temple" title="Konark Sun Temple">Konark Sun Temple</a> (1250 CE)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Moai</a>, Easter Islands (1250–1500 CE)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Piet%C3%A0_(Michelangelo)" title="Pietà (Michelangelo)">Pietà</a></i> (1498–1499)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/David_(Michelangelo)" title="David (Michelangelo)">David</a></i> (1501–1504)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Veiled_Christ" title="Veiled Christ">Veiled Christ</a></i> (1753)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamagaya_Great_Buddha" title="Kamagaya Great Buddha">Kamagaya Great Buddha</a> (1776)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nelson%27s_Column" title="Nelson's Column">Nelson's Column</a> (1843)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lion_of_Belfort" title="Lion of Belfort">Lion of Belfort</a></i> 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