Easter Island pics
Finally, I´ve had a chance to upload some of my Easter Island pics. Here are just a few of the couple hundred I took on the island.
The first couple of pictures are from the quarry where they carved all of the statues and then transported them around the island (although no one is really sure how they transported them). At the quarry, the statues are in various states of completion, including fully finished ones to ones that were just being started and were still attached to the quarry wall. In a way, it´s sort of like a statue graveyard. This is by far the coolest place on the island.
Karen trying to decide which one is her favorite.
Karen´s got a secret to share!
This last one is still attached to the stone wall at the quarry and is unfinished but nearing completion when work was abandoned.
The following pictures are from Tongariki, which is the site with the largest number of re-erected statues, fifteen. These were re-erected by a Japanese crane company in the 1990s. Every single statue on the island was toppled, so only a few have been re-erected, all from the 1950s onwards.
The following are from the beach at Anakena. You´ll notice that these are wearing the topknots (pukao), which is made out of red scoria. These were separately carved and added to the tops of most of the statues. But when the statues toppled, all of them fell off and most of them broke, so very few of them have them now. You´ll see that only 1 of the 15 statues at Tongariki above has one.
This last picture is of the first statue re-erected on the island, by Thor Heyerdahl. He was a Norwegian explorer who was convinced that Easter Island was settled from the South American mainland. Now that he´s dead, everybody is free to deride this theory as laughable. It is now (almost) universally accepted that Easter Island was settled by Polynesians (probably from the Marquesas Islands) coming from the west).
The first couple of pictures are from the quarry where they carved all of the statues and then transported them around the island (although no one is really sure how they transported them). At the quarry, the statues are in various states of completion, including fully finished ones to ones that were just being started and were still attached to the quarry wall. In a way, it´s sort of like a statue graveyard. This is by far the coolest place on the island.
Karen trying to decide which one is her favorite.
Karen´s got a secret to share!
This last one is still attached to the stone wall at the quarry and is unfinished but nearing completion when work was abandoned.
The following pictures are from Tongariki, which is the site with the largest number of re-erected statues, fifteen. These were re-erected by a Japanese crane company in the 1990s. Every single statue on the island was toppled, so only a few have been re-erected, all from the 1950s onwards.
The following are from the beach at Anakena. You´ll notice that these are wearing the topknots (pukao), which is made out of red scoria. These were separately carved and added to the tops of most of the statues. But when the statues toppled, all of them fell off and most of them broke, so very few of them have them now. You´ll see that only 1 of the 15 statues at Tongariki above has one.
This last picture is of the first statue re-erected on the island, by Thor Heyerdahl. He was a Norwegian explorer who was convinced that Easter Island was settled from the South American mainland. Now that he´s dead, everybody is free to deride this theory as laughable. It is now (almost) universally accepted that Easter Island was settled by Polynesians (probably from the Marquesas Islands) coming from the west).
posted by Kevin at 2/25/2007 05:33:00 PM
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