TE PITO TE HENUA, OE EASTER ISLAND. 



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to the platforms. Many of the images in the workshops are of huge 

 proportions, but the largest one on the island lies on one of tin 1 central 



terraces in an unfinished condition and measures 7<> feet in length, 1 U 

 feel across the body : the head being 28^ feet long. Home of the stand- 

 ing statues are in as perfect condition as the day they were finished. 



One (Fig. lo) is noticeable from the fact that the head is slightly 

 turned to one side and is known as the " wry-neck," but whether it is 

 the result of accident or design could not be determined. 



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'WRT-NRi I B, RANA RORAKA. 





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Fig. IC. 



Tiif. Mutilated i.mv.k •• iiiaka," Outsideof 



CRA'l SB i >] Kana Roraka. 



Another excellent specimen (Fig. 16) ofthese remarkable figures stands 

 near the last mentioned and shows tool-marks around the neck as 

 though an effort had been made to cut the head off. The natives call 

 this "hiara" and have a tradition to the effect that it belonged to a 

 powerful elan who were finally defeated in war, and that their enemies 

 had made an attempt to destroy the statue by cutting off the head. The 

 story may be based only upon the mutilation, but the chances are that 

 it is founded upon fact. 



Nothing of importance was found by digging about the images or in 

 the workshops except broken stone implements which had been used by 

 the builders. In one of the quarries we found the only trace of sculpt- 

 ured figures in the vicinity. 



These emblems were carved upon a smooth rock over a half-finished 

 image. 



