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Moai de piedra con sombrero

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Open larger image: The stone moai seen from the front in a museum display, with landscape panels behind it.
E128368-0.Credit: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology; E128368-0.Rights: Usage conditions apply: educational and other non-commercial reuse under https://www.si.edu/termsofuse. Original downloaded file preserved; website copies resized and re-encoded.Original imageRecorded in: Photograph of Moai de piedra con sombrero
Open larger image: Black-and-white photograph of the moai with ropes around its head and body, three people alongside and a smaller stone figure to its right.
E128368-0.Credit: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology; E128368-0.Rights: Usage conditions apply: educational and other non-commercial reuse under https://www.si.edu/termsofuse. Original downloaded file preserved; website copies resized and re-encoded.Original imageRecorded in: Photograph of Moai de piedra con sombrero
Open larger image: Front view of the stone moai behind a low barrier, with two museum labels.
E128368-0.Credit: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology; E128368-0.Rights: Usage conditions apply: educational and other non-commercial reuse under https://www.si.edu/termsofuse. Original downloaded file preserved; website copies resized and re-encoded.Original imageRecorded in: Photograph of Moai de piedra con sombrero
Open larger image: Close front view of the moai’s head and torso, showing its long nose and hands across the lower body.
E128368-0.Credit: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology; E128368-0.Rights: Usage conditions apply: educational and other non-commercial reuse under https://www.si.edu/termsofuse. Original downloaded file preserved; website copies resized and re-encoded.Original imageRecorded in: Photograph of Moai de piedra con sombrero
Open larger image: Close oblique view of the moai’s face from below, with its nose pointing to the left of the photograph.
E128368-0.Credit: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology; E128368-0.Rights: Usage conditions apply: educational and other non-commercial reuse under https://www.si.edu/termsofuse. Original downloaded file preserved; website copies resized and re-encoded.Original imageRecorded in: Photograph of Moai de piedra con sombrero
Open larger image: Close oblique view of the moai’s face from below, with its nose pointing to the right of the photograph.
E128368-0.Credit: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology; E128368-0.Rights: Usage conditions apply: educational and other non-commercial reuse under https://www.si.edu/termsofuse. Original downloaded file preserved; website copies resized and re-encoded.Original imageRecorded in: Photograph of Moai de piedra con sombrero
Open larger image: Profile of the moai’s head and upper body in the museum gallery.
E128368-0.Credit: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology; E128368-0.Rights: Usage conditions apply: educational and other non-commercial reuse under https://www.si.edu/termsofuse. Original downloaded file preserved; website copies resized and re-encoded.Original imageRecorded in: Photograph of Moai de piedra con sombrero
Open larger image: Front view of the moai displayed beneath a separate dark stone pukao against a red museum panel.
E128368-0. Former display with pukao E128369; the catalogue says the pukao was probably not originally made for this statue.Credit: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology; E128368-0.Rights: Usage conditions apply: educational and other non-commercial reuse under https://www.si.edu/termsofuse. Original downloaded file preserved; website copies resized and re-encoded.Original imageRecorded in: Photograph of Moai de piedra con sombrero
Open larger image: Side view of the moai displayed beneath a separate dark stone pukao against a red museum panel.
E128368-0. Former display with pukao E128369; the catalogue says the pukao was probably not originally made for this statue.Credit: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology; E128368-0.Rights: Usage conditions apply: educational and other non-commercial reuse under https://www.si.edu/termsofuse. Original downloaded file preserved; website copies resized and re-encoded.Original imageRecorded in: Photograph of Moai de piedra con sombrero
Open larger image: Oblique view of the moai without a pukao in front of a red museum panel.
E128368-0.Credit: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology; E128368-0.Rights: Usage conditions apply: educational and other non-commercial reuse under https://www.si.edu/termsofuse. Original downloaded file preserved; website copies resized and re-encoded.Original imageRecorded in: Photograph of Moai de piedra con sombrero

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