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Moaiains
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/53a8d6b6-9534-49c6-a71b-8080af46f7f4/CF6506B5-66B4-49EC-A909-27B70E4587BA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moai&oldid=201450648" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moai&oldid=201450648" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moai&oldid=201450648"><P><B>Moai</B> (or <I><B>mo‘ai</B>)</I> are <A title="Monolithic" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolithic">monolithic</A> human figures carved from rock on the <A title="Polynesian" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian">Polynesian</A> island of <A title="Rapa Nui" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapa_Nui">Rapa Nui</A> (Easter Island), mostly between 1250 and 1500 <A title="Common Era" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era">CE</A>. Nearly half are still at <A title="Rano Raraku" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rano_Raraku">Rano Raraku</A>, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on <A title="Easter Island" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island#Ahu">Ahu</A> (platforms) which were mostly at the island's perimeter. Almost all have overly large heads three fifths the size of their body. The Moai are the 'living faces' <I>(aringa ora)</I> and representations of chiefly, deified ancestors.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><A title="" href="#cite_note-0">[1]</A></SUP> Sitting on their Ahus with their backs to the sea, these statues were still gazing across their clan lands when Europeans first visited the island, but most were then cast down during conflict between different clans on the island.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CF6506B5-66B4-49EC-A909-27B70E4587BA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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