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Viriamo (c. 1820/1830 – 7 January 1936) was a Rapa Nui woman from Easter Island. Her name is also often spelled Veri ʻAmo, Veriamo, Viriama. Vereama and Viriamo.
Description: Tattooing on native woman, Easter Island. Original sketch probably dated to Thomson's visit on the USS Mohican in December 1886. Date
Easter Island is a volcanic island, consisting mainly of three extinct coalesced volcanoes: Terevaka (altitude 507 metres) forms the bulk of the island, while two other volcanoes, Poike and Rano Kau, form the eastern and southern headlands and give the island its roughly triangular shape.
Along with Viriamo, Ana Eva Hei was among the last surviving women from Rapa Nui to receive traditional facial tattoos. [2] Her tattoos were described by Alfred Métraux, who undertook a research expedition to her home from 1934 to 1935. He stated that her tattoos included: "two parallel stripes crossing her forehead from one ear to the other ...
The 2 Iuhi needles donated to the Field Museum from the Fuller collection Tattooing on woman, Easter Island, 1886. As in other Polynesian islands, Rapa Nui tattooing had a fundamentally spiritual connotation. (Rapa Nui, Easter Island.) In some cases the tattoos were considered a receptor for divine strength or mana.
The Rapa Nui (Rapa Nui: [ˈɾapa ˈnu.i], Spanish: [ˈrapa ˈnu.i]) are the indigenous Polynesian peoples of Easter Island.The easternmost Polynesian culture, the descendants of the original people of Easter Island make up about 60% of the current Easter Island population and have a significant portion of their population residing in mainland Chile.
Jo Anne Van Tilburg is an American archaeologist best known for her research on the statues of Easter Island ().Her primary specialty is rock art. Van Tilburg was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1965, receiving her Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1986.
A reimiro is a crescent-shaped pectoral ornament once worn by the people of Easter Island. The name comes from the Rapanui rei ('stern' or 'prow') and miro ('boat'). Thus the crescent represents a Polynesian canoe. Each side of the reimiro ended in a human face. The outer, display side had two small pierced bumps through which a cord was strung ...