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GREAT STONE MONUMENTS FEWKES 



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stand out as a distinct architectural type. The mind of man was in 

 both instances under the influence of an identical thought, environ- 

 ment furnishing different materials for the expression of that 

 thought. 



Fig. 23.— Colossus of soldier, Ming Tombs, China, photo- 

 graph from F. B. Wright. 



The existence of colossi on Easter Island, one of the most iso- 

 lated islands of the Pacific Ocean, so far from all other monumental 

 works of magnitude, is one of the archeological enigmas. Here and 

 there on Pacific islands there are stones that may be called monoliths, 

 but the images of Easter Island surpass them all in size and impor- 

 tance. 



