Figura con doble cara — Concepcion , Chile

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Reference: Arte en la cultura rapanui — PDF, pages 12–19, “MUSEOS DEL MUNDO EN DONDE HAY PIEZAS DE RAPA NUI”

Source author: Ana Maria Arredondo

• Reported holder: Museo de Concepcion

• Reported location: Concepcion , Chile

• Classification: Figura

• Description: Figura con doble cara

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Reference: https://www.patrimoniocultural.gob.cl/en/regional-museums/easter-island-anthropological-museum/aringa-erua-moai-moai-two-faces

Source author: Servicio Nacional del Patrimonio Cultural

• Name: Aringa Erua Moai (Moai of the Two Faces)

• Material: Wood, fish bones and obsidian

• Description: This wooden carving of a moai was probably collected in 1875 by Chilean sailor Policarpo Toro during his first visit to Easter Island, prior to its annexation by Chile in 1888.

• Description: It was held by the Natural History Museum of Concepción until 2009 when it was definitively transferred to the Rapa Nui Museum collection to which it had been on loan for ten years.

• Description: The key feature of this figure is its two faces.