Easter Island Moi

The Moai are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island in eastern Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500. Nearly half never left Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the island's perimeter. Almost all moai have overly large heads, which comprise three-eighths the size of the whole statue. Many of the statues were still gazing inland across their clan lands when Europeans first visited the island in 1722,

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At approximately 7" in height these Easter Island Moai candles have a finished wax weight of about 1 lb 9 oz.

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