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 https://www.eisp.org/6101/ https://www.eisp.org/6101/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2019 23:08:46 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/?p=6101 MANA PRESS BOOK 1 The Iconic Tattooed Man of Easter Island by Adrienne L. Kaeppler & Jo Anne Van Tilburg An impressively tattooed but unnamed Easter Island (Rapa Nui) man appears often in the pages of Pacific Island histories and museum catalogs. The Swedish ethnographer Dr. Knut Hjalmar Stolpe knew him only as Tepano, the […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/6101/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/4333/ https://www.eisp.org/4333/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 01:12:45 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/?p=4333 Tattoo (tatau) is an ancient Polynesian and Micronesian practice that is a deeply traditional part of social, economic, and aesthetic life.  Tattoo is the permanent adornment of the human body. Tattoo vividly demonstrates status, rank and individual courage through the ability to bear pain. Tattoo artists were respected and honored, and they practiced their profession […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/4333/feed/ 0