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Remote Possibilities Hoa Hakananaia And Hms Topaze On Rapa Nui Jo Anne Van Tilburg

Name: Remote Possibilities Hoa Hakananaia And Hms Topaze On Rapa Nui Jo Anne Van Tilburg
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Remote Possibilities Hoa Hakananaia And Hms Topaze On Rapa Nui Jo Anne Van Tilburg instant download after payment.

Publisher: British Museum

File Extension: PDF

File size: 26.43 MB

Pages: 76

Author: Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Cristián Arévalo Pakarati

ISBN: 9780861591589, 0861591585

Language: English

Year: 2006

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Remote Possibilities Hoa Hakananaia And Hms Topaze On Rapa Nui Jo Anne Van Tilburg by Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Cristián Arévalo Pakarati 9780861591589, 0861591585 instant download after payment.

In 1868, Hoa Hakananai’a was discovered on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Polynesia. From there it was shipped to England on board HMS Topaze, and then offered to Queen Victoria who presented it to the British Museum. It is not known precisely when this basalt figure was carved, but nearly one thousand moai were produced – all sacred icons exemplifying the Polynesian concern with ancestry, the gods, life and death. This volume describes how, when and by whom Hoa Hakananai’a was collected. It reconstructs the underlying Rapanui aesthetic and social structure that produced Hoa Hakananai’a, and which has been obscured by time and historic accident. The research framework that supports the text includes: the cultural context discerned in the analysis of objective descriptive data collected from nearly 1,000 moai and set within the broader revelations of modern archaeology, geography and ecology; the anthropological insight gained from two decades of valuable ethnographic contact with a broad representation of the Rapanui community, and the evident aesthetic congruence and continuity discerned in certain classes of Rapanui objects, in addition to moai, held in museum collections throughout the world. Many of the illustrations in this paper are published here for the first time.

This paper is a considerably revised version of the 1992 British Museum Occasional Paper No. 73 by the same author.