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| Moai on one of the two beaches on Easter Island. |
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| This Moai is the only historic one that has eyes but they are not the originals they are copies. |
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| Our family next to a huge row of Mowai. |
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| 15 Moai all in a row all of them are whole except for one which has no face. |
The quarry were the Mowai were made.
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| This Moai has not been removed from the rock it is carved out of but it would have been 69 feet tall, the biggest moai that would ever have been lifted but the natives never made it that far. |
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| These Moai are actually not just heads they are in ditches that the natives made so they could stand them up and carve designs on there backs. These Mowai were abandoned so over the years the holes have been filled in with dirt[Since they were under ground all the rest of the Mowai is preserved, so if you dug one up you would see the most delicate of the lines still there]. |
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| This Moai has had all it's front side carved out but it's back is still in attached to the mountain. If the natives had finished it they would have cut it of the mountain slid it in to a ditch then when all the designs were done walk it to were it would stand. The natives walked the Moai by tying 3 ropes around the Moais head were the eyes should be[they did not carve out the eye sockets and put in coral eyes till it was were it was meant to stay]. The natives pulled on these ropes in a certain way which rocked the Moai back and forth, the bottom of the Moai was carved in a way that when they rocked it it would teeter in a movement that made it walk. |
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| This Moai is different because it was the only one made that had legs. No one knows why this Moai was made but it is interesting[it is still were the quarry is, it was never moved but it is finished besides the eyes]. |
Look at how big these are!!!!
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| This Moai was the largest Moai to stand[36'] and the last one standing. Why all the Moai fell down is because after many years on the island the natives broke out in a civil war. The Moai were made as a sort of grave stone. A important person would have one. All Moai faced the village of the dead person when the Moai got it's eye's it was believed that it was protection for the village. So when civil war broke out, the different villages pushed over other villages Moai on their faces so that village would not have protection. |
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| On this Moai you can still see the hand carved on it. |
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| This Moai is the traveling Moai because when the first european ships came the men wanted to show the rest of the world so they took this one. But it was brought back and restored. |
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| You would think that these were hats for the Moai but they are not. They are really suppose to represent the hair do of the native men[they are called top knots]. |
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| These statues are amazing. |
