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Hammer stone, used in carving stone statues. Field collection: William Scoresby Routledge and Katherine Routledge When Collected: Between 29 March 1914 and 18 August 1915 Accession Book Entry - 1916. W. Scoresby Routledge, Esq. - Specimens collected by himself and Mrs Routledge, during the voyage of the schooner-yacht "Mana" to Easter Island and Pitcairn Island. - The following from Easter Island (Rapa-Nui): - [1 of] 7 hammerstones used for flaking, etc., from Orongo houses, etc. Loan from the Pitt Rivers Museum 1916.36.175
@mcrmuseum The Rapanui made great use of the different kinds of stone available on the island. Volcanic eruptions hundreds of thousands of years earlier had created a variety of coloured stones that were gathered, quarried and used to create monuments. Tools such as stone adzes or toki were made specially. Different clans appear to have been responsible for obtaining their own moai and pukao. They do not seem to be made ‘to order’ by a central authority. Small gangs worked the quarries. Statues were carved whilst still attached to the parent rock. Folklore refers to workers who were paid in food. The Rapanui marked out the outline of a moai in the quarry, cut away a channel in the surrounding stone, shaped and polished the front, and finally cut through the keel or ridge underneath to release the statue from the bedrock. This would have been like severing the umbilical cord of a newborn child, another indication that the Rapanui treated the rock as if it was alive. |
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