MOAI

Moai

Moai, or mo‘ai, are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people from rock on the Chilean Polynesian island of Easter Island between the years 1250 and 1500. Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the island's perimeter. Almost all moai have overly large heads three-eighths the size of the whole statue. The moai are chiefly the living faces of deified ancestors . The statues still gazed inland across their clan lands when Europeans first visited the island, but most were cast down during later conflicts between clans.

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moai

Noun

  1. One of the large stone statues on Easter Island (Rapa Nui).


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