EditorialMai or Omai, young Ra'iatean man, Society Islands, in turban and cape. The second Pacific Islander to visit Europe after Ahu-toru. Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinz's Illustrated Natural History of Men and Animals, 1836.
EditorialAhu Tahai has three ceremonial platforms with a group of five and two single moai, among them Ko te Riku, the only " seeing" statue because its eyes, of white coral, have been restored. Originally, all moais had eyes of coral. Between the ahu...