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The mayor of Easter Island has known as for motor restrictions to be set up in area within the standing after a truck collided with a sacred stone statue.
Pedro Edmunds Paoa knowledgeable native media that the incident had precipitated “incalculable” injure.
A Chilean man who lives on the island grew to become as soon as arrested on Sunday and charged with detrimental a nationwide monument, native media grunt.
The platform on which the statue grew to become as soon as mounted grew to become as soon as moreover destroyed.
Stone statues have been carved by the indigenous Rapa Nui individuals to embody the spirit of a eminent ancestor.
About 1,000 of the figures – recognized as moai – exist on the island, which hosts about 12,000 vacationers a month.
“Everybody determined in opposition to organising site visitors strategies when it acquired right here to autos on sacred websites – however we, as a council, have been talking relating to the hazards and knew completely what the upward thrust in vacationer and resident numbers would possibly possibly additionally imply”, Mr Edmunds Poa informed the El Mercurio newspaper.
“They did not listen in on us and right here is the tip consequence,” he talked about.
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A picture posted by the Comunidad Indigena Ma’u Henua shows the aftermath of the atomize
In a Fb put up, the Ma’u Henu indigenous community mentioned it became once of a have to-maintain significance to “defend tradition heritage”.
“They make not appear like very best archaeological stays, they’re sacred system of a residing tradition and traditional to our Rapa Nui world imaginative and prescient.”
What make we all know relating to the moai?
Almost 1,000 massive stone statues and carvings – the biggest of which weigh 74 tonnes and stand 10m gargantuan – reside to drawl the story the island.
The figures have been carved by the indigenous Rapa Nui individuals someday between the years of 1400 and 1650 and positioned to originate a hoop throughout the island, going through inland.
Best recognized for his or her deep-situation eyes and extended ears, they moreover sport spectacular multi-tonne hats.
For the Rapa Nui, they have been figures of spiritual devotion, embodying the spirit of a eminent ancestor. Each individual grew to become as soon as notion to be to be the actual individual’s residing incarnation.
Little doubt one of the vital statues – recognized as a result of the Hoa Hakananai’a – is housed within the British Museum, gifted by a British naval captain to Queen Victoria in the 1860s.
The Chilean govt and the island’s authorities requested or not it’s returned in 2018.
Nevertheless the island’s mayor really helpful he would salvage a monetary commitment from the museum to create positive that the maintenance of the closing moai on the island.
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The mayor of Easter Island has known as for motor restrictions to be set up in area within the standing after a truck collided with a sacred stone statue.
Pedro Edmunds Paoa knowledgeable native media that the incident had precipitated “incalculable” injure.
A Chilean man who lives on the island grew to become as soon as arrested on Sunday and charged with detrimental a nationwide monument, native media grunt.
The platform on which the statue grew to become as soon as mounted grew to become as soon as moreover destroyed.
Stone statues have been carved by the indigenous Rapa Nui individuals to embody the spirit of a eminent ancestor.
About 1,000 of the figures – recognized as moai – exist on the island, which hosts about 12,000 vacationers a month.
“Everybody determined in opposition to organising site visitors strategies when it acquired right here to autos on sacred websites – however we, as a council, have been talking relating to the hazards and knew completely what the upward thrust in vacationer and resident numbers would possibly possibly additionally imply”, Mr Edmunds Poa informed the El Mercurio newspaper.
“They did not listen in on us and right here is the tip consequence,” he talked about.
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Comunidad Indigena Ma’u Henua/Fb
A picture posted by the Comunidad Indigena Ma’u Henua shows the aftermath of the atomize
In a Fb put up, the Ma’u Henu indigenous community mentioned it became once of a have to-maintain significance to “defend tradition heritage”.
“They make not appear like very best archaeological stays, they’re sacred system of a residing tradition and traditional to our Rapa Nui world imaginative and prescient.”
What make we all know relating to the moai?
Almost 1,000 massive stone statues and carvings – the biggest of which weigh 74 tonnes and stand 10m gargantuan – reside to drawl the story the island.
The figures have been carved by the indigenous Rapa Nui individuals someday between the years of 1400 and 1650 and positioned to originate a hoop throughout the island, going through inland.
Best recognized for his or her deep-situation eyes and extended ears, they moreover sport spectacular multi-tonne hats.
For the Rapa Nui, they have been figures of spiritual devotion, embodying the spirit of a eminent ancestor. Each individual grew to become as soon as notion to be to be the actual individual’s residing incarnation.
Little doubt one of the vital statues – recognized as a result of the Hoa Hakananai’a – is housed within the British Museum, gifted by a British naval captain to Queen Victoria in the 1860s.
The Chilean govt and the island’s authorities requested or not it’s returned in 2018.
Nevertheless the island’s mayor really helpful he would salvage a monetary commitment from the museum to create positive that the maintenance of the closing moai on the island.
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The mayor of Easter Island has known as for motor restrictions to be set up in area within the standing after a truck collided with a sacred stone statue.
Pedro Edmunds Paoa knowledgeable native media that the incident had precipitated “incalculable” injure.
A Chilean man who lives on the island grew to become as soon as arrested on Sunday and charged with detrimental a nationwide monument, native media grunt.
The platform on which the statue grew to become as soon as mounted grew to become as soon as moreover destroyed.
Stone statues have been carved by the indigenous Rapa Nui individuals to embody the spirit of a eminent ancestor.
About 1,000 of the figures – recognized as moai – exist on the island, which hosts about 12,000 vacationers a month.
“Everybody determined in opposition to organising site visitors strategies when it acquired right here to autos on sacred websites – however we, as a council, have been talking relating to the hazards and knew completely what the upward thrust in vacationer and resident numbers would possibly possibly additionally imply”, Mr Edmunds Poa informed the El Mercurio newspaper.
“They did not listen in on us and right here is the tip consequence,” he talked about.
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Comunidad Indigena Ma’u Henua/Fb
A picture posted by the Comunidad Indigena Ma’u Henua shows the aftermath of the atomize
In a Fb put up, the Ma’u Henu indigenous community mentioned it became once of a have to-maintain significance to “defend tradition heritage”.
“They make not appear like very best archaeological stays, they’re sacred system of a residing tradition and traditional to our Rapa Nui world imaginative and prescient.”
What make we all know relating to the moai?
Almost 1,000 massive stone statues and carvings – the biggest of which weigh 74 tonnes and stand 10m gargantuan – reside to drawl the story the island.
The figures have been carved by the indigenous Rapa Nui individuals someday between the years of 1400 and 1650 and positioned to originate a hoop throughout the island, going through inland.
Best recognized for his or her deep-situation eyes and extended ears, they moreover sport spectacular multi-tonne hats.
For the Rapa Nui, they have been figures of spiritual devotion, embodying the spirit of a eminent ancestor. Each individual grew to become as soon as notion to be to be the actual individual’s residing incarnation.
Little doubt one of the vital statues – recognized as a result of the Hoa Hakananai’a – is housed within the British Museum, gifted by a British naval captain to Queen Victoria in the 1860s.
The Chilean govt and the island’s authorities requested or not it’s returned in 2018.
Nevertheless the island’s mayor really helpful he would salvage a monetary commitment from the museum to create positive that the maintenance of the closing moai on the island.
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Getty Pictures
The mayor of Easter Island has known as for motor restrictions to be set up in area within the standing after a truck collided with a sacred stone statue.
Pedro Edmunds Paoa knowledgeable native media that the incident had precipitated “incalculable” injure.
A Chilean man who lives on the island grew to become as soon as arrested on Sunday and charged with detrimental a nationwide monument, native media grunt.
The platform on which the statue grew to become as soon as mounted grew to become as soon as moreover destroyed.
Stone statues have been carved by the indigenous Rapa Nui individuals to embody the spirit of a eminent ancestor.
About 1,000 of the figures – recognized as moai – exist on the island, which hosts about 12,000 vacationers a month.
“Everybody determined in opposition to organising site visitors strategies when it acquired right here to autos on sacred websites – however we, as a council, have been talking relating to the hazards and knew completely what the upward thrust in vacationer and resident numbers would possibly possibly additionally imply”, Mr Edmunds Poa informed the El Mercurio newspaper.
“They did not listen in on us and right here is the tip consequence,” he talked about.
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Comunidad Indigena Ma’u Henua/Fb
A picture posted by the Comunidad Indigena Ma’u Henua shows the aftermath of the atomize
In a Fb put up, the Ma’u Henu indigenous community mentioned it became once of a have to-maintain significance to “defend tradition heritage”.
“They make not appear like very best archaeological stays, they’re sacred system of a residing tradition and traditional to our Rapa Nui world imaginative and prescient.”
What make we all know relating to the moai?
Almost 1,000 massive stone statues and carvings – the biggest of which weigh 74 tonnes and stand 10m gargantuan – reside to drawl the story the island.
The figures have been carved by the indigenous Rapa Nui individuals someday between the years of 1400 and 1650 and positioned to originate a hoop throughout the island, going through inland.
Best recognized for his or her deep-situation eyes and extended ears, they moreover sport spectacular multi-tonne hats.
For the Rapa Nui, they have been figures of spiritual devotion, embodying the spirit of a eminent ancestor. Each individual grew to become as soon as notion to be to be the actual individual’s residing incarnation.
Little doubt one of the vital statues – recognized as a result of the Hoa Hakananai’a – is housed within the British Museum, gifted by a British naval captain to Queen Victoria in the 1860s.
The Chilean govt and the island’s authorities requested or not it’s returned in 2018.
Nevertheless the island’s mayor really helpful he would salvage a monetary commitment from the museum to create positive that the maintenance of the closing moai on the island.
Picture copyright
Getty Pictures
The mayor of Easter Island has known as for motor restrictions to be set up in area within the standing after a truck collided with a sacred stone statue.
Pedro Edmunds Paoa knowledgeable native media that the incident had precipitated “incalculable” injure.
A Chilean man who lives on the island grew to become as soon as arrested on Sunday and charged with detrimental a nationwide monument, native media grunt.
The platform on which the statue grew to become as soon as mounted grew to become as soon as moreover destroyed.
Stone statues have been carved by the indigenous Rapa Nui individuals to embody the spirit of a eminent ancestor.
About 1,000 of the figures – recognized as moai – exist on the island, which hosts about 12,000 vacationers a month.
“Everybody determined in opposition to organising site visitors strategies when it acquired right here to autos on sacred websites – however we, as a council, have been talking relating to the hazards and knew completely what the upward thrust in vacationer and resident numbers would possibly possibly additionally imply”, Mr Edmunds Poa informed the El Mercurio newspaper.
“They did not listen in on us and right here is the tip consequence,” he talked about.
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Comunidad Indigena Ma’u Henua/Fb
A picture posted by the Comunidad Indigena Ma’u Henua shows the aftermath of the atomize
In a Fb put up, the Ma’u Henu indigenous community mentioned it became once of a have to-maintain significance to “defend tradition heritage”.
“They make not appear like very best archaeological stays, they’re sacred system of a residing tradition and traditional to our Rapa Nui world imaginative and prescient.”
What make we all know relating to the moai?
Almost 1,000 massive stone statues and carvings – the biggest of which weigh 74 tonnes and stand 10m gargantuan – reside to drawl the story the island.
The figures have been carved by the indigenous Rapa Nui individuals someday between the years of 1400 and 1650 and positioned to originate a hoop throughout the island, going through inland.
Best recognized for his or her deep-situation eyes and extended ears, they moreover sport spectacular multi-tonne hats.
For the Rapa Nui, they have been figures of spiritual devotion, embodying the spirit of a eminent ancestor. Each individual grew to become as soon as notion to be to be the actual individual’s residing incarnation.
Little doubt one of the vital statues – recognized as a result of the Hoa Hakananai’a – is housed within the British Museum, gifted by a British naval captain to Queen Victoria in the 1860s.
The Chilean govt and the island’s authorities requested or not it’s returned in 2018.
Nevertheless the island’s mayor really helpful he would salvage a monetary commitment from the museum to create positive that the maintenance of the closing moai on the island.
Picture copyright
Getty Pictures
The mayor of Easter Island has known as for motor restrictions to be set up in area within the standing after a truck collided with a sacred stone statue.
Pedro Edmunds Paoa knowledgeable native media that the incident had precipitated “incalculable” injure.
A Chilean man who lives on the island grew to become as soon as arrested on Sunday and charged with detrimental a nationwide monument, native media grunt.
The platform on which the statue grew to become as soon as mounted grew to become as soon as moreover destroyed.
Stone statues have been carved by the indigenous Rapa Nui individuals to embody the spirit of a eminent ancestor.
About 1,000 of the figures – recognized as moai – exist on the island, which hosts about 12,000 vacationers a month.
“Everybody determined in opposition to organising site visitors strategies when it acquired right here to autos on sacred websites – however we, as a council, have been talking relating to the hazards and knew completely what the upward thrust in vacationer and resident numbers would possibly possibly additionally imply”, Mr Edmunds Poa informed the El Mercurio newspaper.
“They did not listen in on us and right here is the tip consequence,” he talked about.
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Comunidad Indigena Ma’u Henua/Fb
A picture posted by the Comunidad Indigena Ma’u Henua shows the aftermath of the atomize
In a Fb put up, the Ma’u Henu indigenous community mentioned it became once of a have to-maintain significance to “defend tradition heritage”.
“They make not appear like very best archaeological stays, they’re sacred system of a residing tradition and traditional to our Rapa Nui world imaginative and prescient.”
What make we all know relating to the moai?
Almost 1,000 massive stone statues and carvings – the biggest of which weigh 74 tonnes and stand 10m gargantuan – reside to drawl the story the island.
The figures have been carved by the indigenous Rapa Nui individuals someday between the years of 1400 and 1650 and positioned to originate a hoop throughout the island, going through inland.
Best recognized for his or her deep-situation eyes and extended ears, they moreover sport spectacular multi-tonne hats.
For the Rapa Nui, they have been figures of spiritual devotion, embodying the spirit of a eminent ancestor. Each individual grew to become as soon as notion to be to be the actual individual’s residing incarnation.
Little doubt one of the vital statues – recognized as a result of the Hoa Hakananai’a – is housed within the British Museum, gifted by a British naval captain to Queen Victoria in the 1860s.
The Chilean govt and the island’s authorities requested or not it’s returned in 2018.
Nevertheless the island’s mayor really helpful he would salvage a monetary commitment from the museum to create positive that the maintenance of the closing moai on the island.
Picture copyright
Getty Pictures
The mayor of Easter Island has known as for motor restrictions to be set up in area within the standing after a truck collided with a sacred stone statue.
Pedro Edmunds Paoa knowledgeable native media that the incident had precipitated “incalculable” injure.
A Chilean man who lives on the island grew to become as soon as arrested on Sunday and charged with detrimental a nationwide monument, native media grunt.
The platform on which the statue grew to become as soon as mounted grew to become as soon as moreover destroyed.
Stone statues have been carved by the indigenous Rapa Nui individuals to embody the spirit of a eminent ancestor.
About 1,000 of the figures – recognized as moai – exist on the island, which hosts about 12,000 vacationers a month.
“Everybody determined in opposition to organising site visitors strategies when it acquired right here to autos on sacred websites – however we, as a council, have been talking relating to the hazards and knew completely what the upward thrust in vacationer and resident numbers would possibly possibly additionally imply”, Mr Edmunds Poa informed the El Mercurio newspaper.
“They did not listen in on us and right here is the tip consequence,” he talked about.
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Comunidad Indigena Ma’u Henua/Fb
A picture posted by the Comunidad Indigena Ma’u Henua shows the aftermath of the atomize
In a Fb put up, the Ma’u Henu indigenous community mentioned it became once of a have to-maintain significance to “defend tradition heritage”.
“They make not appear like very best archaeological stays, they’re sacred system of a residing tradition and traditional to our Rapa Nui world imaginative and prescient.”
What make we all know relating to the moai?
Almost 1,000 massive stone statues and carvings – the biggest of which weigh 74 tonnes and stand 10m gargantuan – reside to drawl the story the island.
The figures have been carved by the indigenous Rapa Nui individuals someday between the years of 1400 and 1650 and positioned to originate a hoop throughout the island, going through inland.
Best recognized for his or her deep-situation eyes and extended ears, they moreover sport spectacular multi-tonne hats.
For the Rapa Nui, they have been figures of spiritual devotion, embodying the spirit of a eminent ancestor. Each individual grew to become as soon as notion to be to be the actual individual’s residing incarnation.
Little doubt one of the vital statues – recognized as a result of the Hoa Hakananai’a – is housed within the British Museum, gifted by a British naval captain to Queen Victoria in the 1860s.
The Chilean govt and the island’s authorities requested or not it’s returned in 2018.
Nevertheless the island’s mayor really helpful he would salvage a monetary commitment from the museum to create positive that the maintenance of the closing moai on the island.
Picture copyright
Getty Pictures
The mayor of Easter Island has known as for motor restrictions to be set up in area within the standing after a truck collided with a sacred stone statue.
Pedro Edmunds Paoa knowledgeable native media that the incident had precipitated “incalculable” injure.
A Chilean man who lives on the island grew to become as soon as arrested on Sunday and charged with detrimental a nationwide monument, native media grunt.
The platform on which the statue grew to become as soon as mounted grew to become as soon as moreover destroyed.
Stone statues have been carved by the indigenous Rapa Nui individuals to embody the spirit of a eminent ancestor.
About 1,000 of the figures – recognized as moai – exist on the island, which hosts about 12,000 vacationers a month.
“Everybody determined in opposition to organising site visitors strategies when it acquired right here to autos on sacred websites – however we, as a council, have been talking relating to the hazards and knew completely what the upward thrust in vacationer and resident numbers would possibly possibly additionally imply”, Mr Edmunds Poa informed the El Mercurio newspaper.
“They did not listen in on us and right here is the tip consequence,” he talked about.
Picture copyright
Comunidad Indigena Ma’u Henua/Fb
A picture posted by the Comunidad Indigena Ma’u Henua shows the aftermath of the atomize
In a Fb put up, the Ma’u Henu indigenous community mentioned it became once of a have to-maintain significance to “defend tradition heritage”.
“They make not appear like very best archaeological stays, they’re sacred system of a residing tradition and traditional to our Rapa Nui world imaginative and prescient.”
What make we all know relating to the moai?
Almost 1,000 massive stone statues and carvings – the biggest of which weigh 74 tonnes and stand 10m gargantuan – reside to drawl the story the island.
The figures have been carved by the indigenous Rapa Nui individuals someday between the years of 1400 and 1650 and positioned to originate a hoop throughout the island, going through inland.
Best recognized for his or her deep-situation eyes and extended ears, they moreover sport spectacular multi-tonne hats.
For the Rapa Nui, they have been figures of spiritual devotion, embodying the spirit of a eminent ancestor. Each individual grew to become as soon as notion to be to be the actual individual’s residing incarnation.
Little doubt one of the vital statues – recognized as a result of the Hoa Hakananai’a – is housed within the British Museum, gifted by a British naval captain to Queen Victoria in the 1860s.
The Chilean govt and the island’s authorities requested or not it’s returned in 2018.
Nevertheless the island’s mayor really helpful he would salvage a monetary commitment from the museum to create positive that the maintenance of the closing moai on the island.
