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Post #805742 by MrBaliHai on Mon, Sep 26, 2022 2:44 PM

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I think Thor Heyerdahl may have been the first Westerner to excavate a complete Moai. He documented and photographed it in his 1957 book "Aku-Aku". The color plate you posted at the top looks like it might have come from that book, but I just checked my copy and didn't see it in there.

[ Edited by MrBaliHai on 2022-09-26 14:48:18 ]