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Map of the location of ꞌOrongo on Easter Island. Orongo (Rapa Nui: Oroŋo) is a stone village and ceremonial center at the southwestern tip of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). It consists of a collection of low, sod-covered, windowless, round-walled buildings with even lower doors positioned on the high south-westerly tip of the large volcanic caldera called Rano Kau.
Text C is held in the general archives of the Padri dei Sacri Cuori (SSCC), Casa Generalizia, Via Rivarone 85, I-00166 Rome, Italy.. Reproductions are located at the SSCC; Musée de l'Homme, Paris; Museum of Mankind, London; Cinquantenaire, Brussels; Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin (2 copies); Institut für Völkerkunde, Tübingen [1] (prior to 1989; on loan from the Linden-Museum); and the ...
Jaussen's Rapanui gloss, pure, means specifically "cowrie". [note 3] [9] Almost a century later, Thomas Barthel published some of Jaussen's notes. [10] He compared Metoro's chants with parallel passages in other tablets and discovered that Metoro had read the lines of Keiti forwards on the reverse but backwards on the obverse. [11]
Studio Collection is a compilation album by Italian singer Mina, released on 26 November 1998 by PDU and EMI. [3] Content. The compilation album contains, in ...
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.
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 complex seen from the east at sunrise Ahu Ko Te Riku, with the restored eyes Ahu Vai Ure. The Tahai Ceremonial Complex is an archaeological site on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Chilean Polynesia.
Hoa Hakananai'a is a moai, a statue from Easter Island.It was taken from Orongo, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in 1868 by the crew of a British ship and is now in the British Museum in London.