Easter Island Moai

Moai are monolithic figures carved from rock on the Polynesian island of Easter Island. Easter Island is in Chile. They were created between the years of 1250 and 1500. Half are still at the man quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the island. Almost all of the moai have overly large heads that take up about three fifths of their bodies. They are living faces of deified ancestors.