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Contemporary art critics complained that his use of light and colour contrasts gave his paintings a rough and unfinished appearance. Man of Easter Island, 1776 (British Museum) Hodges also produced many valuable portrait sketches of Pacific islanders and scenes from the voyage involving members of the expedition.
Rongorongo (/ ˈ r ɒ ŋ ɡ oʊ ˈ r ɒ ŋ ɡ oʊ / [1] or / ˈ r ɒ ŋ oʊ ˈ r ɒ ŋ oʊ /; [2] Rapa Nui: roŋoroŋo [ˈɾoŋoˈɾoŋo]) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that has the appearance of writing or proto-writing.
However much of Polynesia, like the islands of Hawaii, New Zealand, Tahiti, and Easter Island, had only relatively recently been settled by indigenous peoples. The most famous Polynesian art forms are the Moai (statues) of Rapa Nui/Easter Island. Polynesian art is characteristically ornate, and often meant to contain supernatural power or mana ...
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 ...
The map of Easter Island (renamed "Isla de San Carlos") from González de Ahedo's 1770 expedition. North is down. North is down. Felipe González de Ahedo , also spelled Phelipe González y Haedo (13 May 1714 in Santoña , Cantabria – 26 October 1802), was a Spanish navigator and cartographer known for annexing Easter Island in 1770.
In 1929, he acquired a collection of objects brought from Easter Island by the writer Pierre Loti. [4] In February 1930, he participated in the Negro Art Exhibition, presenting nearly 400 pieces of "very good quality" at the Théâtre Pigalle Gallery. His ambition was to "make Paris the center of the movement in favor of indigenous arts."
The island was given its current name the day Europeans arrived in the 1700s – on Easter Sunday. The island is famous for its monolithic stone statues, called Moai, said to honour the memory of the inhabitants’ ancestors. There are nearly 1000 scattered around the island, usually positioned near freshwater.
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