| One full-moon night, a friend and I dragged our hotel bedding to the great stone heads, the moai, some 24 feet tall. |
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| The sole desire seems to have been to obtain strong platforms capable of supporting ever taller and heavier busts, the classical moai of the middle period. |
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| Similar suggestions have been made in the past, but experiments indicated that the moai would have been worn away by the time they got to the coast. |
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| This exhibition explores why the statues – or moai – have intrigued the West, drawing together cartoons, books, adverts, toys and board games inspired by the mysterious stone figures. |
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| I had the opportunity of working with this company when moai statues on Easter Island were being restored and I know that its cranes are extremely useful. |
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| Many artists have created pieces that will serve as mementos of Rapa Nui for years to come, with carved wooden reproductions inspired by moai by Douglas Purdy and pottery ones by Monica Vulcanescu. |
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| The Rapa Nui people used it to make most of the moai statues in Easter Island. |
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| Tuff from Rano Raraku was used by the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island to make the vast majority of their famous moai statues. |
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| The students' moais looked like representatives of a stately, regal culture.These statues are called moai and can weigh up to eighty tons each. |
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| Apart from the island's utter remoteness, what attracts the tourists are the moai, the mysterious giant stone statues erected by the ancestors of the indigenous Rapa Nui people. |
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| When one Moai reaches the finish line, you compare the number of stones in the first and second place Moai. |
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