Moai Statues History
History of Moai StatuesMoyaĆ statues - 1200 year old historic statues on Easter Island
The Moai statues are sculptures of humans cut from the rock of Easter Island. MoyaĆ statues have large minds three to five times the sizes of their bodies. It was erected by Easter Islanders about 1200 - 1500 years ago. 887 statues found on Easter Island. Paro (33 feet) was the highest of the statues and weighs 82 tonnes.
Ahu Tongariki is the place with the largest sculpture (weight 86 tons). Some 50 statues were made of tufa (a kind of stone made of solidified volcano fly which was expelled from the chimneys during a volcano eruption). Then it was grated with pumice stone (a kind of vulcanic stone). Heights of the Moai sculpture are about 13.3 ft, the width about 5.25 ft and the mass about 13.8 tonnes per part.
Online 3D Print Easter Island Moai Statues
"Moai " are a group of monomeric man made between 1250 and 1500 on Easter Isle. Almost half is still in Rano Raraku, the major mai pit, but several hundred were moved from there and placed on stones named Ahu around the isle. Nearly all Moai have too big minds, three out of five the sizes of their shells.
Moai are above all the live faces of idolised forefathers. There are 887 statues produced and transported, which are regarded as a remarkably productive and physically achievement. Paro, the highest moai built, was almost 10 meters high and weighted 82 tonnes; the heaviest one was a short but occupied moai near Ahu Tongariki, which weighted 86 tonnes; and an incomplete statue, if it had been finished, would have been about 21 meters high with a total of about 270 tonnes.
Ancient Easter Island History Film DVDs
These DVDs were made from old films about Easter Isle in the 1950'. I' m intrigued by Easter Isle and found it very interesting in view of the way the Easter Isle looked at that year. The use of the archipelago for breeding purposes became particularly clear when it unloaded lambs from a vessel moored off the coast.
Photographs of Rano Raraku, Rano Kau and other sights were also taken. It was the only moai that stood in the stone pit, which makes perfect reason, since the renovation of the moai only began in the60s. Rapanuiphiles " should buy this disc, but probably not from someone looking for general information about Easter Island.