This moai, with heavy brow, long ears and jutting chin, was carved from dark lava rather than the island's usual reddish tuff. It stood half buried in a stone house at Orongo, the ceremonial village of the birdman cult, when the crew of HMS Topaz took it in 1868. Rapa Nui islanders have since asked for its return.
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Walk round to the back: two birdmen, a sooty tern, ceremonial dance paddles and vulva symbols were carved there later. When collected, these reliefs were painted red and white.
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