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platforms near La Perouse Bay are comparatively small and are not placed 

 as close to the shore as those on the south shore of the island. 



Tlie platform figured on Plate 28 is about an eighth of a mile inland. 

 The desert aspect of that part of the island is well shown in the background 

 to the platform on Plate 28. Fragments of the images once raised on tliese 

 platforms are found in their rear (PI. 27, figs, i, ;?). At a little distance 

 inland from one of the platforms a small red tufa crown was found. It was 

 about four feet in diameter and three feet high, deeply grooved horizontally 

 and vertically. See Fig. on p. 57. 



A number of images are left standing on the outer slopes of Rana Roroka 

 (Pis. 31-33), showing the heads in profile, in full fiice, or from the rear. 

 These heads are not as large as the heads of the images figured on Plates 34- 

 36, of which the head alone is more than 15 feet. 



Paymaster William J. Thomson, U. S. N., to wliotn we owe such an excel- 

 lent account of Easter Island,' states that the images on Easter Island were 

 carefully counted, and shows a total of 550 images. Of these, he says, 40 

 are standing inside of the crater of Rana Roroka, and as many more out- 

 side, at the foot of the slope, wliere they were placed ready for removal to 

 the different platforms. " The large majority of the images are lying near 

 the platforms round the coast, all more or less mutilated." 



The images on Plate 31 are at tlie foot of the western slope of Rana 

 Roroka ; those on Plates 32 and 33 on the southeastern slope, and those on 

 Plates 34 to 36 ^ on the intermediate slope, facing somewhat in a southerly 

 direction, at the foot of one of the lowest outside quarries or workshops. 

 Many of these images are known by special names to the natives. They 

 are cut from a conglomerate material easily worked with their rude stone 

 hammers, but also readily disintegrated by weathering. 



The quarries and workshops where the images were cut are found both 

 in the interior and on the exterior slopes (Pis. 37-40) of the ci-ater of Rana 

 Roroka. On Plate 37 is shown part of the upper quarry and workshop of the 

 interior slope of the crater with a number of images standing, and others 

 fallen on different parts of the slope. On Plate 38 is shown a part of the 

 lower quarry and workshop on the outer slope of the southeastern face of the 

 crater. A large image is seen roughly cut out in the centre of the plate. 

 Part of the upper quarry of the outer slope of the southeastern face of the 



1 Ri'port of U. S. Natl. Museum for year ending 1880 (June). 1891. 



^ The image ou Plate 35 is the same as that figured by Geiseler, 1. c. PI. 3. 



