When1: 1600
When2: 1730
What: sculptor
Where: Easter Island, Peru
works\ moai [1600 to 1730: 600 large stone statues]
Detail: Early Pacific Islanders carved many long, giant, staring, chiseled faces {moai} from soft volcanic tufa stone. They connect to large carved and buried bodies, up to 10 meters deep, and peer out to sea. They used to have flat red rocks on head tops. Inhabitants also buried ash and bones with the statues. In Polynesian, it is Rapa Nui.
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