For 150 years, the British Museum has housed i of the iconic, heavy-browed rock figures that Chile's Easter Island is famous for. Now the islanders are hoping desperately to larn it back. They invention to construct a re-create of the four-ton monolith and, potentially swap it for the existent thing.
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| On Nov 23, a commission of islanders in addition to Chilean officials plans to move to London in hopes of negotiating the moai's furnish [Credit: Gregory Boissy/AFP] |
About a dozen create got been removed from the isle over the years. Now Camilo Rapu, president of the island's Ma'u Henua community, said it's fourth dimension Hoa Hakananai'a was returned.
The Ma'u Henua community, amongst Chilean regime support, launched a drive inwards August to persuade the British Museum in addition to Queen Elizabeth II to furnish the famous moai -- inwards central for an exact replica to go carved on Easter Island.
"Our practiced carvers volition brand a re-create inwards basalt, the master copy rock used inwards the Hakananai'a moai, every bit an offering to Queen Elizabeth inwards central for the original," Rapu told reporters inwards Santiago.
The Ma'u Henua create got signed an understanding amongst the Bishop Museum -- Hawaii's largest museum, amongst a huge collection of Polynesian artifacts -- to attain a polycarbonate re-create of the Hakananai'a, to go ready yesteryear Nov 3.
The actual carving of the statue volition create got house on Easter Island, using thousand-year-old Rapa Nui techniques -- combined amongst only about modern applied scientific discipline to allow the project to go completed inwards 7 months.
The Hakananai'a moai inwards the British Museum stands 2.4 metres tall (eight feet) in addition to weighs virtually 4 tons.
On Nov 23, a commission of islanders in addition to Chilean officials plans to move to London inwards hopes of negotiating the moai's return.
"This is a historic need of the Rapa Nui people," said Rapu. The Rapa Nui were the island's aboriginal settlers, in addition to their descendants withal brand upward a large piece of employment of the population.
"This moai has a spiritual value; it is piece of employment of our menage unit of measurement in addition to our culture. We desire her (the queen) to sympathize that for us, this is its value -- non every bit a museum piece," he said.
The islanders volition convey amongst them a book, inwards back upward of their demand, signed yesteryear only about of the thousands of tourists who every twelvemonth catch the Pacific isle paradise only about 3,700 kilometres (2,300 miles) off Chile's mainland.
Source: AFP [October 22, 2018]
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