Support Sustainable Archaeology on Easter Island
Dear Friends,
In 1982, I established the Easter Island Statue Project. Through a methodical archaeological survey my Rapanui colleagues and I have accomplished the digital mapping of Rano Raraku statue quarry, documented over one thousand statues throughout the entire island and created the world’s largest archaeological archive describing the statues.
Working with scientific colleagues at The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA and with conservators from Chile’s Centro Nacional de Conservación y Restauración, the first phase of our three phase project has been initiated. We are currently excavating and conserving two statues in Rano Raraku interior quarry of major archaeological significance. Knowledge gained there will allow preservation of other statues throughout the island.
In 2008, our work was rewarded with a major grant from the Site Preservation Task Force of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA; www.archaeological.org).
This wonderful AIA grant has jumpstarted our conservation initiative. EISP has no endowment. Our only source of income is grants and U.S. tax deductible contributions. We also enjoy profit sharing through sales of contemporary indigenous art in our Mana Gallery on Easter Island.
Please help us match the AIA grant. Join us in A Monumental Task, Join us as a Friend of EISP!
—Jo Anne Van Tilburg
Please print and complete this form, then mail it to:
The Easter Island Statue Project
225 Arizona Avenue, Suite 500
Santa Monica, California 90401
Your gift is U.S. tax deductible when you write your check to The Mana Foundation (federal tax identification number 95-4774733). Questions? Call us at 1 310 395 6502.