The Moai statues on Easter Island, in Polynesia, were a collection of nine hundred statues that had been carved from volcanic ash and rock. More than of them remained at the quarry, while the rest had been transported all over the island by the indigenous people who had lived there long before Europeans first set foot on the island. The statues all had incredibly large heads, apparently to symbolize the fact that they were meant to be effigies of ancestors that were venerated and held in high esteem. Interestingly, they had all gazed inland across the ancestral territories before being toppled in the late 1700s and the early 1800s. Once again, I had Mrs. Nolan, my history teacher in high school, to thank for the knowledge I retained.
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