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GPS: -27.125626°-109.276873°
PhotoID: B167-B
VoyageID: VG-010

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Description: Two of the 15 Tongariki moai - Easter island - Chile.
Moai are monolithic human figures carved from rock. Moai are carved in relatively flat planes, the faces bearing proud but enigmatic expressions. The over-large heads (a three to five ratio between the head and the body, a sculptural trait which demonstrates the Polynesian belief in the sanctity of the chiefly head) have heavy brows, elongated noses with a distinctive fish-hook shaped curl of the nostrils. Like the nose, the ears are elongated, and oblong in form.