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Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago de Chile

July 12th, 2013

Megalithic Stone Sculpture from Easter Island (Rapa Nui) In the collection of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago de Chile

Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Ph.D.
Cristián Arévalo Pakarati

 Informal Data Report to Claudio Gomez, Director,
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural

Appendix: Results of the 2012 XRF Analyses
Christian Fischer, Ph.D.
Mónica Bahamondez Prieto

Introduction

This report is generated with the use of data on file in the Easter Island Statue Project (EISP) archives. Data were collected by Jo Anne Van Tilburg and Cristián Arévalo Pakarati on-site during four visits in 1991 and 2007 and as well during various archive searches in Chile.  The numbers assigned to each statue are EISP inventory numbers. The actual museum accession numbers are cross-referenced in the EISP files.  Publication of the recent British Museum Press volume dealing with that museum’s statues includes a summary description of these in Santiago(Van Tilburg 1992, 2006).  Data provided in the Appendix were collected by Christian Fischer and Mónica Bahamondez P. on site in 2012 and as part of the Easter Island Statue Project Conservation Initiative funded by the Archaeological Institute of America. Read the rest of this entry »

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Smithsonian Moai SI-WDC-001

May 4th, 2009

EISP archive photos of Moai SI-WDC-001, located at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, USA. Photos by Jo Anne Van Tilburg, 1986 © JVT/EISP.EISP archive photos of Moai SI-WDC-001, located at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, USA. Photos by Jo Anne Van Tilburg, 1986 © JVT/EISP.<em>Moai</em> installed at the Constitution Ave. entrance of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., April 2006.(far left, 2 images) EISP archive photos of Moai SI-WDC-001, located at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, USA. Photos by Jo Anne Van Tilburg, 1986 © JVT/EISP.

(left) Moai SI-WDC-001 is currently installed inside the Constitution Ave. entrance of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.



EISP archive drawings of Head SI-WDC-002 (left) and Moai SI-WDC-001 (below), both originally from Ahu O'Pepe, are currently in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. Drawings by Cristián Arévalo Pakarati, 2000© JVT/EISP.EISP archive drawings of Head SI-WDC-002 (left) and Moai SI-WDC-001 (below), both originally from Ahu O'Pepe, are currently in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. Drawings by Cristián Arévalo Pakarati, 2000© JVT/EISP.EISP archive drawings of Head SI-WDC-002 (left) and Moai SI-WDC-001 (below), both originally from Ahu O'Pepe, are currently in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. Drawings by Cristián Arévalo Pakarati, 2000© JVT/EISP.EISP archive drawings of Head SI-WDC-002 (left) and Moai SI-WDC-001 (below), both originally from Ahu O'Pepe, are currently in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. Drawings by Cristián Arévalo Pakarati, 2000© JVT/EISP.


EISP archive drawings of Head SI-WDC-002 and Moai SI-WDC-001, both originally from Ahu O’Pepe, are currently in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. Drawings by Cristián Arévalo Pakarati, 2000© JVT/EISP.

RELATED RECORD: Cristiàn Arèvalo Pakarati, Rapanui artist and EISP co-investigator with Dr. Adrienne L. Kaeppler, curator of oceanic ethnology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, on site at Ahu O’Pepe.

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