Welcome to the Tiki Central 2.0 Beta. Read the announcement
Celebrating classic and modern Polynesian Pop

Tiki Central / General Tiki / Moai outside of Easter Island?

Post #502572 by Hakalugi on Wed, Jan 6, 2010 12:23 AM

You are viewing a single post. Click here to view the post in context.
H

Ohhhh, sorry for the following mess. Here is a discombobulated table listing all relocated Moais (or partial Moais).

Yikes!

Please accept my apologies for the redundancies...


Object Material Height Current location Country Acquisition Date Reference [5] Notes Image
Moai Basalt 3m Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels Belgium 1934-35 ET.35.5.340 or Pou hakanononga Removed by the Lavachery, Metraux and Watelin expedition.

Unnamed Moai Rapa nui (Easter Island) Removed from Hanga Roa in 1929 spent 40 years in Santiago, Chile before being transported to Argentina and making a round trip to the Netherlands. It was returned to Rapa Nui in 2006.[6]
Moai Tuff 2.94m Salón de la Polinesia, Museo arqueologico, La Serena Chile Displayed in Europe, then moved to the Salón de la Polinesia[1][2]
Moai Tuff 2.81m Corporacion Museo de Arqueologia e Historia Francisco Fonck, Viña del Mar Chile 1174 (EISP# MF-VDM-001)
Head Basalt Corporacion Museo de Arqueologia e Historia Francisco Fonck, Viña del Mar Chile 35-001 (EISP# MF-VDM-002)
Moai Tuff 2.88m Museo Arqueological Padre Sebastian Englert, Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui (Easter Island) MA-IDP025
Head Tuff 2m (approx) Museo Arqueological Padre Sebastian Englert, Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui (Easter Island) c. 2006 Moai from Centro Cultural Recoleta.
Pukau Red scoria — Museo Arqueological Padre Sebastian Englert, Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui (Easter Island) c. 2006 Pukao from Centro Cultural Recoleta.
Head Tuff 1.85m Musee de l'Homme, Paris France 1872 MH.30.35.1
Head Tuff 1.70m Pavillon des Sessions, Musée du Louvre, Paris France c. 1934-35 MH.35.61.1 Presented to the Chilean government by Henri Lavachery and Alfred Metraux for the Musée de l'Homme after their expedition to Rapa Nui, in 1934-35.

Head Red scoria 42cm Pavillon des Sessions, Musée du Louvre, or the Musee de l'Homme, Paris France c. 1934-35 MH.35.61.66
Head Basalt 58.5cm Auckland Museum, Auckland New Zealand AM12768
Moai Trachyte 1.6m Otago Museum, Dunedin New Zealand 1929 D29.6066 Bought by the museum in 1929 from Norman Brander[7]
Moai Basalt 2.42m The British Museum, London UK 7 November 1868 1869.10-5.1 Hoa Hakananai'a see article Hoa Hakananai'a

Moai Basalt 1.56m The British Museum, London UK 7 November 1868 1869.10-6.1 Moai Hava
Moai Basalt 2.24m National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. United States 1886 128,368 (EISP# SI-WDC-001) Removed from Ahu O'Pepe.

Head Tuff 19.4cm National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. United States 1886 128,370 (EISP# SI-WDC-002) Removed from Ahu O'Pepe.
Pukao Red scoria 101.6cm National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. United States 1886 128,369 (EISP# SI-WDC-003) Removed from Ahu O'Pepe.
Moai. 2m (approx) The American University, Washington D.C United States 2000 Moai at the American University Presented in 2000 by the Embassy of Chile as a gift to The American University. The moai displays a pair of reconstructed eyes.[8][9]

If you wanna see a more orderly presentation, go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relocation_of_moai_objects

Now let's see where more of the fullsize fake ones are!