EditorialEaster Island: the famous " moai" -statues were all quarried from the tuff of the crater walls of Rano Raraku volcano. Each statue had its front and sides finished before being detached from the bedrock. Unfinished " moai" lie on th...
EditorialMonuments on Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Artist Gaspard Duche de Vancy sketching a Moai while a native steals his hat. From Jean Francois Laperouse's Voyage. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno?s Col...
EditorialFemale statue (moai kavakava) from Easter Island. Wood, bone, obsidian, H; 34 cm The carver followed the bend of the branch used for the statue. Depot du Musee national de la Marine, Inv.39EX281.
EditorialMonuments on Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Artist Gaspard Duche de Vancy sketching a Moai while a native steals his hat. From Jean Francois Laperouse's Voyage. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno?s Col...
EditorialMonuments on Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Artist Gaspard Duche de Vancy sketching a Moai while a native steals his hat. From Jean Francois Laperouse's Voyage. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno?s Col...
EditorialFemale statue (moai kavakava) from Easter Island. Wood, bone, obsidian, H; 34 cm The carver followed the bend of the branch used for the statue. Depot du Musee national de la Marine, Inv.39EX281.
EditorialEaster Island: the famous " moai" -statues were all quarried from the tuff of the crater walls of Rano Raraku volcano. Each statue had its front and sides finished before being detached from the bedrock. Unfinished " moai" lie on th...