ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON IN SAMOA+ THE MISTERY OF EASTER ISLAND
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON IN SAMOA
In the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa
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THE MISTERY OF EASTER ISLAND
They are called Moai. They aremonolithic human figures carved from rock on the Polynesian island of Easter Island. They still are a big mistery
Where they came from and why? Sergio Rapu Haoa and a team of archaeologists discovered that the hemispherical or deep elliptical eye sockets were designed to hold coral eyes with either black obsidian or red scoria pupils.The discovery was made by collecting and reassembling broken fragments of white coral that were found at the various sites. It is thought that the moai with carved eye sockets were probably allocated to the ahu and ceremonial sites, suggesting that a selective Rapa Nui hierarchy was attributed to the moai design until its demise with the advent of the Birdman religion, Tangata Manu.
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