Pou Hakanononga: A statue from Easter Island.
Snoeck/Royal Museums of Art and History of Brussels.| N° d'inventaire | 30588 |
| Format | 17.3 x 24.6 |
| Détails | 109 p., numerous color photographs, paperback. |
| Publication | Ghent, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9789461618818 |
PLUS Masterpieces Collection.
The colossal stone statue from Easter Island, weighing six tons, brought back to Belgium in 1935, was a gift from the Chilean authorities in gratitude for the scientific work carried out by the team led by French archaeologist Alfred Métraux and Belgian ethnologist Henri Lavachery. The training ship Mercator, which can still be visited in Ostend, brought it back to the port of Antwerp. The statue is one of two entire Easter Island colossi to have left its shores.
Excavations, funded by the National Geographic Society and the Royal Museums of Art and History, were carried out in March 2001 at the site where the statue came from. The cult platform that supported it was found and dated to the end of the 13th century or the beginning of the following century, using the carbon 14 method. For Easter Island, whose first settlement is currently estimated to be around the year 1000, this is the oldest Easter Island monument ever dated with certainty.
The Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH) is a federal scientific institution located in Brussels. It is the largest museum in the country, with the most diverse collections composed of objects from all continents, dating from prehistory to the post-war period.
PLUS Masterpieces Collection.
The colossal stone statue from Easter Island, weighing six tons, brought back to Belgium in 1935, was a gift from the Chilean authorities in gratitude for the scientific work carried out by the team led by French archaeologist Alfred Métraux and Belgian ethnologist Henri Lavachery. The training ship Mercator, which can still be visited in Ostend, brought it back to the port of Antwerp. The statue is one of two entire Easter Island colossi to have left its shores.
Excavations, funded by the National Geographic Society and the Royal Museums of Art and History, were carried out in March 2001 at the site where the statue came from. The cult platform that supported it was found and dated to the end of the 13th century or the beginning of the following century, using the carbon 14 method. For Easter Island, whose first settlement is currently estimated to be around the year 1000, this is the oldest Easter Island monument ever dated with certainty.
The Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH) is a federal scientific institution located in Brussels. It is the largest museum in the country, with the most diverse collections composed of objects from all continents, dating from prehistory to the post-war period.