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Post #94167 by lanikai on Wed, Jun 2, 2004 1:43 PM

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On 2004-06-02 13:36, Tiki_Bong wrote: since all tikis were ordered distroyed after Christianity took hold...

actually it was the breaking of the kapu sytem about two years before the arrival of the first missionaries when most heiau and attendant tiki carvings were destroyed. After the intoduction of christianity, there were not many tikis in evidence on the islands.