Moai outside of Easter Island?

At first, the first tiki, Rapa Nui's Moai, seemed limited to that slab of stone in the Pacific. However, now they seem to migrated as did the early Tahitians. I'm wondering if we can list them all?

1. Polynesian Cultural Center, Oahu's North Shorte
2. Smith's Family Luau Garden, Kauai's Coconut Coast
3. Sunset Park, Las Vegas, Nevada
4. Hanalei Hotel, San Diego, California
5. Tonga Hut, North Hollywood, California
6. CP Studio, Hollywood, California
7. Fry's, Manhattan Beach, California
8. Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, California
9. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution , Washington D.C.
   10.The Hut, Tucson, Arizona

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!

Khan Tiki Mon with the Smithsonian Moai. Don't have pictures of the others yet.

Here is a newspaper photo I found a while back. Bali Hai Apartments Stockton CA.

Stockton Record Photo from 1961

On 2010-01-06 19:57, abstractiki wrote:
Here is a newspaper photo I found a while back. Bali Hai Apartments Stockton CA.

Stockton Record Photo from 1961

Nice 411.
Here is a version in color:

Here is the Moai at Smith's Tropical Garden, in Kauai:

And the ones at Polynesian Cultural Center:

But I thought this post was only talking about real Easter Island Moai.

Ahh,naw. While the OG Moai have a thousands times more mana, I meant to include the Polynesian Pop ones.

There's one outside the Kon Tiki Museum in Oslo.

This moai is at the TimeExpo Museum in Waterbury, CT.

[ Edited by: tikigreg 2013-06-22 10:27 ]

The moai outside of the Los Angeles Natural History Museum has been sent to the American Museum of Natural History, New York, according to a NHMLA staffer.

Mojave Oasis 2013.

Keep an eye out!

On 2010-01-06 11:19, khan_tiki_mon wrote:

Khan Tiki Mon with the Smithsonian Moai. Don't have pictures of the others yet.

this was the D.C. moai with topknot before the museum deleted the pacific cultures exhibit, and moved mr. moai outside the restrooms.

also please note that someone local to the dc area has sculpted a scale concrete version of this very moai (in my opinion) and sells it locally.

[ Edited by: Johnny Dollar 2012-12-23 07:03 ]

A few more photos of the DC Moai.

Circa 1910.

The Moai at the Louvre Museum.

And a great photo of a Moai in New York City.

Stonehenge II and Easter Island Head at the Hill Country Arts Foundation. They are not real moai.

http://www.hcaf.com

http://www.mdjonline.com/view/full_story/8980168/article-Stonehenge-II-in-Texas-Hill-Country-on-the-move

-Lori

[ Edited by: tikilongbeach 2012-12-23 12:09 ]

[ Edited by: tikilongbeach 2012-12-28 19:47 ]

BP Bishop Museum. Honolulu, HI.

I took this in October.

http://www.bishopmuseum.org

Circa 1910.

wait... did they have a full moai plus a moai head, or maybe the full moai and a repro head to show the topknot-?

EDIT...
nmnh has both a head and a full moai, Head SI-WDC-002 and Moai SI-WDC-001 - guess the head is in storage.
http://www.mnh.si.edu/onehundredyears/featured_objects/easter_island_stone_figure.html

[ Edited by: Johnny Dollar 2012-12-24 06:38 ]

Norwich township Columbus Ohio.

Here's the one outside the Kon Tiki Museum, Oslo, Norway.

This faux moai is located at Aquarium at the Pacific in Long Beach.

and Mickey Finzz in Vegas.

Maoi in Toronto Canada, in front of Tilley Endurables

more info here:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=16474&forum=1

This big fella lives in a miniature golf arcade in Reno Nevada. I couldn't get a decent shot cuz of all the trees (I was outside of the fence) so I handed my camera to a gentleman playing golf who kindly snapped the pic for me. Wish I'd gotten his name-he said he had a photography studio in Reno.Gods of Rapa-Nui were smiling on me.
He's bout 40-45' tall
Cheers

Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach CA:

Okay, from the list on page 1.

The C.P. Three Prop House. Hollywood, CA

The Tonga Hut Big Mo- Inside. North Hollywood, CA

Fry's, Manhattan Beach, CA

Also -

Hollywood Pointe Apts. Inglewood, CA - Formerly the Aku Aku Apts.

Forest Lawn. Glendale, CA

No one has a decent picture of the Oceanic Arts Moai? :o

and no stealing the one from Critiki!

Lest we forget the Kon Tiki Camping Moai - perhaps the biggest?

DC

B B, Ask and you shall receive,
David

[ Edited by: Bora Boris 2012-12-28 21:09 ]

Jackalope dressed in Hawaiian gear and a Moai? What's not to like?
This website explains it.
http://www.blog.thelope.com/2010/05/national-miniature-golf-day.html

I did a TC search and didn't find anything on these guys.

http://jin.jcic.or.jp/en/travel/kyushu/miyazaki/sunmesse_nichinanshi/

On the hilltop of Nichinan Coastline in Miyazaki prefecture is the theme park "Sun Messe Nichinan." The park's key feature is seven replicas of Moai statues with their backs turned toward the Pacific Ocean, 15,000 kilometers removed from the originals on Easter Island, Chile.

The statues were created with the official permission of the Polynesian island, granted in thanks for the restoration efforts made by Japanese construction companies. Standing tall at 5.5 meters, the stone sculptures make a sharp contrast against the subtropical oceanfront.

The seven statues represent work, health, love, travel, marriage, money, and study, supposedly able to help improve respective spheres of your life if you only touch them with heartfelt wishes.

Besides Moai statues, the park also offers a unique combination of amusement facilities, including a restaurant, a spa, an insect museum, and a pleasant pature land with cows and goats roaming about.

Why, thank you, Lori.

On 2012-12-28 20:08, tikilongbeach wrote:
Jackalope dressed in Hawaiian gear and a Moai? What's not to like?
This website explains it.
http://www.blog.thelope.com/2010/05/national-miniature-golf-day.html

And here's a real moai, Hoa Hakananai'a, at the British Museum.

More photos of it and other moai can be found here: http://www.thelope.com/2007/04/more-easter-stuff.html

There's also a faux moai along Route 66 in Arizona: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=15121&forum=2&start=last& - Greg

http://www.thelope.com

[ Edited by: tikijackalope 2012-12-31 04:26 ]

Moai Amsterdam. Bad joke....

It's amazing that if you start typing in different, mostly European, countries + moai into Google Images you can find real and fake moai around the world.
Ennepetal,Germany

Hamburg

-Lori

[ Edited by: tikilongbeach 2013-01-06 10:51 ]

Aloha,

from the Tadano.co.jp website

Japanese Moai

A Moai statue stands on Megi Island, 4km to the west of Takamatsu city of Kagawa Prefecture , looking over the Inland Sea. Megi Island is famous for the folktale "MOMOTARO", of a young hero defeating ogres. Strange as it may sound, the Moai is not real, but a replica.

The fact is that, after TADANO having made this replica for the experiment of rebuilding the real Moai statues, they donated the replica to Takamatsu City. Then it was built on the island by the City on 23 Oct.1996.
The replica is made of pale brown stone, 3.9m in height, 1.8m in width, 1.3m in depth, 10.8t in weight. Kazuhiro YAMADA, a local sculptor, who lives in Aji town of Kagawa Prefecture, made it at the request of TADANO, on the basis of a drawing measured by TADANO at Easter Island, because TADANO was an initiator of promoting "The Moai Restoration Project" organized by archeologists of Japan, the Republic of Chile, and the United States.

The following photograph shows the ceremony "Ogre Festival of Seto", performed on 3 Nov. 1996. At that time, Jaime Lagos, Chilean Ambassador ** in Japan, celebrated the completion of setting up the statue. On the occasion, he gave an address to the guests saying "The Moai Statues are one of the Seven Wonders of the world, even now veiled in mystery. I hope this Moai statue will be helpful to the children in filling up their imagination." This was a moving event, brought about as a result of the restoration of Moai statues.

Waikiki Tiki; Art, History, and Photographs.
Available now from Bess Press Hawaii.

[ Edited by: Phillip Roberts 2013-01-03 13:02 ]

Nice thread!
This exact topic is the basis for a chapter in "Big Stone Head: Easter Island and Pop Culture", available exclusively at http://www.bigstonehead.com

At only $4.99, you can't go wrong!

On 2013-01-03 13:07, tikibars wrote:
This exact topic is the basis for a chapter in "Big Stone Head: Easter Island and Pop Culture", available exclusively at http://www.bigstonehead.com
At only $4.99, you can't go wrong!

I agree, it's a great ebook with awesome photos and text. And I love the big stone head moai mug, too!

Found a really cool 8X10 of that Moai in NY from November 1968.

Nice arty shot for a newspaper!

From the back:

"Big Head

Massive, five-ton head from
Easter Island on display in
front of office building in New
York City. Head was brought
to United States in effort to
attract attention to plight of
Easter Island monuments."

Encountered the following pair at a winery in Door County, WI this week:

The winery owners didn't know who originally put them there, but they liked them enough to put them on a label and name one of their most popular blends after them:

Stuff's not half bad...[hic!]

On 2012-12-27 19:54, Bora Boris wrote:

Forest Lawn. Glendale, CA

I need to go to Forest Lawn to check that out.

On 2013-06-21 20:47, christiki295 wrote:
I need to go to Forest Lawn to check that out.

..and perhaps this:

and this:

and these:

...perhaps the Marx Brothers paid Bogey a visit?:

In any case, as one site attests, "There are more major Hollywood stars buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park
than at any other spot in the world.":

http://www.cemeteryguide.com/gotw-dollysisters.html

I personally love it because of its kitschy statuary....

...and schmaltzy, Disney-esque presentations like "The Sory of the Last Supper Window":

...and have been known to refer to it as the "Disneyland of the Dead" :)

Oh, and to make this post "Tiki" again :) :

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2013-06-22 02:36 ]

Let me add one thing to Sven's cemetery pics and descriptions - I think this would be of interest to tiki carvers here on Tiki Central.

Some of the best statuary - truly amazing - which I have ever seen are in the Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia. There was a period of time in their local history, a 40-to-60-year span starting in the late 1800's I believe, when it was quite fashionable to import elaborate memorial marble statuary from Italy. The result is that we can see many life-size and superbly-realistic sculptures which make a helluva impression on any visitor. I tell people to go there just to be able to "look into the faces of angels." A few celebs are buried there as well -- Johnny Mercer is one -- along with a number of historical figures.

It's not tiki, but it is extremely memorable from the carving aspect. I highly recommend Googling some web sites which contain photos of the cemetery. The rich and deep realism which the sculptors were able to impart into their depictions of plants, flowers, flowing garments, faces, hands, body positions, and how they conveyed emotions in stone is truly breathtaking. I will never forget my first visit as a newbie. Truly memorable. I highly recommend it.

While sightseeing with my parents through Cave Creek, AZ we drove past the Desert Foothills Gardens Nursery which has quite the nice display of moai in front.
Unfortunately my dad didn't want to stop so my pictures come from the 2 below websites.
http://joeorman.shutterace.com/Bizarre/Bizarre_Giantheads.html
http://www.desertfoothillsgardens.com/sculptures.htm

According to the nursery website they do sell the stone Moai heads.

On 2012-12-31 04:25, tikijackalope wrote:
And here's a real moai, Hoa Hakananai'a, at the British Museum.

Ive seen that one! Definitely worth the trip if you are in London, its free to see - they do a great little book which tracks the history of that specific moai :)

http://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/archaeology/hoa-hakananaia/invt/cmc50246

[ Edited by: AdOrAdam 2013-07-08 08:00 ]

Wikipedia compiled a list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relocation_of_moai_objects

Somebody stole GROG' idea.

I got my picture from the Easter Island Traveling Facebook page.

Those bastards!

My back yard, Halloween...

Would everyone please contribute to my Kickstarter campaign to "Relocate an actual Easter Island Moai to my house"
if you contribute $25 dollars or more you get to help me move it around my yard until we find the perfect place for it.