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The statue was a gift from the people of Nii-jima (an island 163 kilometres (101 mi) from Tokyo but administratively part of the city) inspired by Easter Island moai. The name of the statue was derived by combining "moai" and the dialectal Japanese word moyai (催合い) 'helping each other'.
The seven moai statues are located with absolute astronomical precision. Thus, the sacred observatory and sanctuary with all the seven moai look exactly towards the point where the sun sets during the equinox and which also aligns with the Moon. Each one is of 16 feet (4.9 m) height and weighs about 18 tons, [7] and its length is 70 metres (230 ...
While sculpting was going on, the volcanic stone was splashed with water to soften it. While many teams worked on different statues at the same time, a single moai took a team of five or six men approximately a year to complete. Each statue represented the deceased head of a lineage. [citation needed] Only a quarter of the statues were installed.
A moyai statue in Niijima.. In Japan, a moyai statue (Japanese: モヤイ像, Hepburn: moyaizō) is a type of stone statue created in the Japanese village of Niijima.The statues, which were created to promote awareness of Niijima, are themed and modeled after the moai of Easter Island.
The Rano Raraku crater contains nearly 30 Moai statues. Fire damage can be seen on the Moai statue, the land around it scorched and brown. Two Easter Island heads sit on the fire-scorched ground.
The statues were built and installed in 1996 for the opening of the seaside park Sun Messe Nichinan, of which the statues are the park's centrepiece. [23] In 2000, the Embassy of Chile in the United States presented a moai replica, with a pair of reconstructed eyes, to the American University. [24] [25]
Images of Moai kavakava in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Image of Moai kavakava in the collection of the Vatican This sculpture article is a stub .
Those moai with pukao are meant to be shown as more majestic and important. This distinction may have also indicated to islanders those statues at which various rituals should be performed. [ 4 ] Pukao are now believed to represent hair [ 5 ] because it was the custom for high-ranking men to have long hair tied in a bun on the top of their heads.