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Moai
Inventory Database
Fieldnotes
EISP
Databases
Gallery (pop-ups)
Jo
Anne Van Tilburg measuring a standing statue in Rano Raraku Quarry.
Debra
Isaac and Alice Hom taking measurements of a statue at Rano Raraku.
Examples
of various film and paper media archived by EISP.
Negatives
and site records are organized in archival, acid free boxes.
Henry
DeBey dusts off a slide in preparation for scanning at the UCLA
Rock Art Archive Lab.
Henry
DeBey starting a batch scan of slides at the UCLA Rock Art Archive
Lab.
Volunteer
George Spangler and Henry DeBey have a discussion at the UCLA Rock
Art Archive Lab.
Participation
in documentary projects using EISP data.
Moai
Transport Experiment (As seen on Nova’s
Secrets of Easter Island)
The
Rapa Nui Carver's Perspective
Fieldnotes
Carver’s
Perspective
Gallery (pop-ups)
Cristián
Arévalo Pakarati
Overview
of the interior slopes and quarries of Rano Raraku.
Statue
still attached to its stone “keel” in Rano Raraku.
A
nearly perpendicular carving canal running between shaped blocks
in Rano Raraku interior quarry.
A
narrow carving canal between statues in the process of being carved,
Rano Raraku interior quarry.
Ahu
Akivi, Moai 1.
An
example of a toki (pick) used to rough out the statues.
Rapa
Nui artist Cristián Arévalo Pakarati preparing for
the finish work on the statue replica.
Tools
used to carve the concrete moai.
Cristián
Arévalo Pakarati checking the carving against his notes.
Cristián
Arévalo Pakarati shaping and leveling the top of the head
of our replica moai.
Cristián
Arévalo Pakarati detailing the nostrils.
Miguel
Angel Arévalo Pakarati carving the dorsal design of our replica
moai.
The
concrete replica statue before its hands were detailed.
Cristián
Arévalo Pakarati and his assistant carver Miguel Angel Arévalo
Pakarati.
Rapa
Nui Outrigger Club
Gallery (pop-ups)
Polynesian
Voyaging Society’s Hokule’a in Long Beach Harbor.
Rodrigo
Paoa A. of Mata Hoe Vaka welcoming Hokule’a to Long
Beach, CA.
Ted
Ralston and Rodrigo Paoa at the welcoming presentation for Rapa
Nui paddlers.
Niko
Haoa and Rodrigo Paoa serving the first food from the umu to
Felipe Teao and Kiko Pate.
Members
of RNOC, friends and family at Anakena.
Hokule’a
at sea off Tahai, with Ahu Vai Uri in the foreground.
Rano
Raraku Interior Quarry Mapping Project
Rano
Raraku Mapping Field Report
Easter
Island: total land area of Rapa Nui
Museum
Objects Inventory
Fieldnotes
Fonck
Museum, Viña del Mar, Chile
Gallery (pop-ups)
Moai
FM-VDM-001 in front of the Museo Fonck.
Museo
Fonck, 2004
Cristián
Arévalo Pakarati drawing a statue head at the Smithsonian.
Routledge
Biography Research
Gallery (pop-ups)
Katherine
and William Scoresby Routledge, 1910.
The
yacht named Mana, used on the Mana Expedition.
Juan
Tepano, Katherine Routledge’s Rapanui informant and collaborator.
Statue
on Rano Raraku Exterior Slopes. (EISP ID RR-002-063)
Statue
of Joseph Pease, Katherine Routledge’s paternal grandfather,
Darlington, Northern England.
“Southend,”
a modern street named for Joseph Pease’s subdivided estate,
Darlington, Northern England.
Jo
Anne Van Tilburg on the steps of Joseph Pease's “Southend,”
Darlington Northern England.
Quaker
Meeting House, attended by Katherine Routledge, Darlington, England.
Gurney
Pease, Katherine Routledge's father, is buried in the Quaker Burial
Ground, Darlington.
Marker
on the grave of Gurney Pease, Katherine Routledge's father, Quaker
Burial Ground, Darlington.
Katherine
Routledge’s Slone Square town house, one of many London residences
she called home.
“Lands
End” in Bursledon, the location of the Routledge’s honeymoon
cottage.
Eve
Dray Stewart, who rescued Mana Expedition papers, and her husband
James Stewart, 1960.
Palau
Statue Survey: Comparative Statue Research
Fieldnotes
Map
of Palau Statue Sites
Table listing twenty-eight stone monoliths
Gallery (pop-ups)
Jo
Anne Van Tilburg and an elder of the Babelblai family of Ngiwal.
Monolith
number 28.
Kempis
Mad of the Belau Museum with monolith number 08.
Monolith
number 01 at Ngerbodel.
Monolith
number 10.
“Englishmans
Beach” at Oolong
Site
4 on Oolong
About
the Island
Resources
Field Season Summaries
1981:
UREP Rock Art Project
Gallery (pop-ups)
Jo
Anne Van Tilburg and UREP participants at Mataveri Airport, 1981.
Petroglyph
at Hanga Piko.
1982:
First EISP Field Season
Fieldnotes
Rano
Raraku Exterior Quarry Sketch
Rano
Raraku Exterior Slope, Moai RR-002-077
Gallery (pop-ups)
Jo
Anne Van Tilburg and rented Land Rover.
Field
Assistant and respected Rapanui elder, Felipe Teao A.
Horses
running along “Brander’s Road.”
Statues
along the Transport Road.
Rano
Raraku Quarry.
Johannes
Van Tilburg sketching in the shadow of Moai RR-002-089.
1983:
EISP UREP Field Season
Fieldnotes
Bas-relief
Dorsal Designs
Measuring
Calipers
Ahu
Vaihu 06-255
Vinapu
Pukao
Ahu
Akahanga 07-584
Rano
Raraku Moai RR-001-287
Gallery (pop-ups)
Jo
Anne Van Tilburg co-piloting.
Aerial
view of Rapa Nui.
Jo
Anne Van Tilburg with Session III UREP volunteers.
Jo
Anne Van Tilburg with Session I UREP volunteers at site 02-209-009.
Jo
Anne Van Tilburg and Raúl Paoa Ika at site 7-581.
Raúl
Paoa Ika sketching
Felipe
Teao A. and Jo Anne Van Tilburg
Johannes
(Jan) Van Tilburg
EISP
photographer David C. Ochsner
1984:
Congreso Isla de Pascua
Fieldnotes
Ahu
Vai Mata 32-059 & Moai 32-023-001
Ahu
Tongariki: Moai 14-548-009
Gallery (pop-ups)
Premier
Congreso Isla de Pascua y Polinesia Oriental.
Dr.
Roger Green, Jo Anne Van Tilburg and Bengt Danielsson.
EISP
field crew, 1984
Jo
Anne Van Tilburg and Rapa Nui elder José Fati.
Jo
Anne Van Tilburg and Dr. Steve Williams
Jo
Anne Van Tilburg and Ann Lockie
Lynn
Lockie
EISP
camp, Rano Raraku
Pukao
on the site of Puna Pau
David
C. Ochsner and Jo Anne Van Tilburg
1985:
Power and Symbol Dissertation
Fieldnotes
Easter
Island Quadrant Map
Ahu
Akahanga, Moai 07-585-001
Trachite
Statue, Ahu 1, Poike
Trachite
Statue, Ahu 6, Poike
Moai
SI-WDC-001
Gallery (pop-ups)
Rapa
Nui crew, directed by Juan Haoa, removing pukao fragment
near Ahu Vaihu (06-255).
Pukao
fragment ready to be lifted from the bay near Ahu Vaihu (06-255).
Moai
head fragment being removed from the bay
near Ahu Vaihu (06-255).
Moai
head fragment placed on high ground near Ahu Vaihu (06-255).
Moai
07-585-001 lifted by a Rapa Nui crew directed by Luis Haoa.
Moai
07-585-001 placed supine on high ground near its original site (07-585).
Stone
surface conservation at Hanga Kio'E.
1989:
National Geographic Funded Field Season
Fieldnotes
Easter
Island Quadrant Map
Basalt
Statue, PSE 84
Trachite
Statue, Ahu 1, Poike
Trachite
Statue, Ahu 6, Poike
Moai
SI-WDC-001
Gallery (pop-ups)
EISP
crew on Motu Nui.
EISP
team with NGS flag.
EISP
team (and National Geographic Society flag) at Rano Raraku.
Felipe
Teao A.
Graciela
Hucke Atan preparing tuna (kahi) at campsite.
Curtiss
Johnson.
Jo
Anne Van Tilburg and Curtiss H. Johnson preparing the seaward wall
at Vinapu.
1990s:
Photogrammetry, Transport Project, Museum Studies
Fieldnotes
Ahu
Vinapu: Moai 02-210-004
Gallery (pop-ups)
Jo
Anne Van Tilburg, Zvi Shiller, and Satish Sundar.
Ahu
Akivi Moai 1, front view.
Ahu
Akivi Moai 1, backview.
Computer
rendering of transport path one.
2002
July-August: Rano
Raraku Interior Quarry Survey,
part I
Fieldnotes
Moai
Paro Digital Reconstruction
Gallery (pop-ups)
Peter
Boniface, Project Surveyor.
Peter
Boniface setting up equipment at the NASA datum.
Cristiàn
Arèvalo Pakarati and Peter Boniface doing a GPS survey.
Non-native
chocho weeds smothering two moai in the inner quarry.
Overview
of chocho overgrowth, innner Rano Raraku quarry.
2002
October-November: Rano Raraku Interior Quarry Survey, part II
Fieldnotes
Ahu
Tangi Uka
Moai
RR-03C-007 Composite
Gallery (pop-ups)
Cristián
Arévalo Pakarati, Barry Rollett, Jo Anne Van Tilburg, and Jared Diamond
at Rano Raraku.
Johannes
Van Tilburg.
New
fragment found by Rafael Rapu at site 06-255.
2003:
Rano
Raraku Interior Quarry Survey,
part III
Dispatches
July
2003: Mapping Rano Raraku Interior Quarry
October
2003: Three New Moai Discovered!
Gallery (pop-ups)
Jo
Anne Van Tilburg making measurements in Rano Raraku.
Bill
White and Cristián Arévalo Pakarati taking survey points.
Dr.
Peter Boniface and Cristián Arévalo Pakarati.
Moai
RR-001-265 set-up for photogrammetry.
Jo
Anne Van Tilburg taking measurements of a moai.
2004:
Rano
Raraku Interior Quarry Survey,
part IV
Dispatches
July
2004: Finishing Rano Raraku Interior Quarry Survey
Gallery (pop-ups)
EISP
Team, 2004.
Cristián
Arévalo Pakarati and Matthew Bates, Rano Raraku.
Cristián
Arévalo Pakarati and Matthew Bates celebrate the last survey
point.
Lichen
found on the back of a moai.
Jo
Anne Van Tilburg measuring height of upright moai on exterior slope
of Rano Raraku.
Moai
on exterior slope, Rano Raraku Quarry.
