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"ALBATROSS" EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC EXPEDITION. 



crater is seen on Plate 40. The images are all in fragments and more or less 

 disintegrated. One of the most interesting parts of the workshop near the 

 base of the outer southern slope of the crater is that given on Plate 39, which 

 gives a view of an unfinished image partly cut out of the face of the quarry. 

 The face and the ventral part of the image alone is free from the surround- 

 ing rock, though the sides are partly cut away, leaving only a comparatively 

 small area of the back to be freed and leave the image ready to be moved 

 down the slope, and be transported to its destination. 



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KiTciiKN i)F House. West Slope of Rana Rokoka. 



There is very little variation in the aspect of the images (Pis. 31-37); 

 the expression of the face is the same in all, the head is quite flattened, 

 tapering towards the top, the brows are heavy, overhanging, the eyes indis- 

 tinct, the nose is long, concave, pointed, slightly turned up, the nostrils are 

 flaring, the lips are pouting, the upper lip is short, the lower lip is very thin, 

 the chin is sharp, the neck short, the ears long and narrow, the cheekbones 

 slightly prominent, the back of the neck curved in. When the arms are 

 visible they are merely indicated as held close to the trunk. None of the 

 images are finished below the hips. 



On the southern slope of Rana Roroka we found remnants of the curb- 

 stones of houses such as have been figured by Paymaster Thomson on p. 502 

 of his Report on Easter Island. Such curbstones are found scattered over 

 many parts of the island.^ 



* Such curbstones are figured by Geiseler, 1. c. PI. 4. 



