Rapanui

= THE RAPANUI =

**Art**
1. These Moai statues are the symbol of Easter Island. Each finished statue standing form 5 meters high to 10 meters high and wieghing from 75 tons to 90 tons. While one unfinished one was supposed to be 21 meters and wiegh around 270 tons. Most and almost all of the statues heads are the size of three fifths of the body. 2. The Moai orginated in the Polynesian Island named Easter Island. There were built some time inbetween 1250- 1500 and been restored overtime. They Moai and the island itself were discovered in 1722 by a Dutch Admiral Jacobs Roggeveen. The statues are now a common tourist visiting place, and the Moai statues are known all over the world. 3. Nowadays when you see a picture of a Moai statue, you think Easter Island. The Moai statues are now what I would say the symbol of Easter Island you see them everywhere t- shirts, posters, and they even have miniature statues of them. But this is the true Rapanui symbol of art, and it is known all across the world. Bibliography []
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**Food**
The Rapanui ate alot of poultry, vegetables, a drank alot of wine. Since the Rapanui lived in such a remote, desolated place food supply was limited, and they had to result to cannibilism. The lack of food caused much war and poverty, but cannibilism was a practice for the Rapanui.