Easter Island Statue Project Official Website » Museum Objects Inventory https://www.eisp.org Easter Island Statue Project Official Website Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:34:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago de Chile https://www.eisp.org/4638/ https://www.eisp.org/4638/#comments Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:05:22 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/?p=4638 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 […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/4638/feed/ 0 Hoa Hakananai’a Laser Scan Project https://www.eisp.org/10/ https://www.eisp.org/10/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 03:06:48 +0000 http://www.alicehom.com/wp/?p=10 Laser scannning Hoa Hakananai’a at the British Museum. Photo by J. Van Tilburg.September 2007 Background, Rationale and Goals To date, Van Tilburg and the Easter Island Statue Project (EISP) have inventoried 887 monolithic statues (moai) and compiled a metric database buttressed by 24,000 original and archived images. Some 35% of the known statues are located on or in direct relation to ceremonial sites called image ahu (Martinsson […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/10/feed/ 0 Documenting Objects in Museums and Collections https://www.eisp.org/1413/ https://www.eisp.org/1413/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 01:16:45 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1413 Lynn Lockie. ©1984 EISP/JVT/ Photo: D. C. Ochsner. Following the work of Lynn Lockie in 1984, EISP expanded to include museum collections research. Statues, fragments, pukao and portable stone sculpture have been documented using the same attribute list that was applied to moai in archaeological contexts. Ten intact moai, as well as 55 other stone sculptural objects including moai heads, torsos, pukao and […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/1413/feed/ 0 Smithsonian Moai SI-WDC-001 https://www.eisp.org/1441/ https://www.eisp.org/1441/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 00:46:21 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1441 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.(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 […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/1441/feed/ 0 Moai at the Fonck Museum, Viña Del Mar, Chile https://www.eisp.org/681/ https://www.eisp.org/681/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 03:26:28 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=681 Moai FM-VDM-001 in front of the Museo Fonck. <br />©1989 EISP/JVT/ Photo: J. Van Tilburg]]> https://www.eisp.org/681/feed/ 0