You may have seen or heard of many statues like Statue of Liberty, Christ the Redeemer,
The Great Sphinx of Giza, etc. But this Monolithic statues of Easter Island are very different from them.
Photo: Wikimedia
Monolithic statues or Moai of Easter Island are made by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island in eastern Polynesia between 1250 and 1500 A.D. Easter Island is located in southeastern Pacific Ocean & is Chilean Island.
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This statues were discovered when Europeans visited Easter Island in 1722. There are around 900 moai in island & many are around the perimeter of the island & are considered to be remarkable creative and physical feats.
Moai have overly large heads three-eighths the size of the whole statue & tallest being of 10 metres (33 ft) high and weighed 82 tons named "Paro". The heaviest one is 86 tons. there are several uncompleted moai, one of them if completed then it would have been 21 metres (69 ft) tall with a weight would be about 270 tons.
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About 53 moai were carved from a compressed volcanic ash, 13 are carved from basalt, 22 from trachyte and 17 from fragile red scoria.
Moai are known for there large & broad nose & strong chins with rectangle-shaped ears and deep eye slits.
There are stone platforms called "Ahu" where moai were made. There are 313 known ahu and 125 of these carry moai. Longest being more than 200 meters & having tallest moai.
It is believed that statues were a representation of the ancient Polynesians’ ancestors. Moai faces opposite to ocean & faces towards villages as they are watching them.
10 moai statues are transferred to otehr parts of world & can be seen in museums & Hoa Hakananai’a is housed in the British Museum is one of them.
On company made fake moai & put it in underwater to attract tourists & scuba divers.
Photo: Fernando G. Baptista, National Geographic
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