Object in Focus: Hoa Hakananai'a by Jo Anne Van Tilberg

Object in Focus: Hoa Hakananai'a by Jo Anne Van Tilberg

This book tells the story of Hoa Hakananaia: an imposing, intriguing figure of superb workmanship, it was the focal point of initiation rites, and is layered with late relief carvings that relate it to exotic birdman rites.

Jo Anne Van Tilburg is an archaeologist and the director of the Easter Island Statue Project. A Research Associate of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, she has conducted an inventory of 887 monolithic statues on Rapa Nui and in museum collections. She is the author of Easter Island: Archaeology, Ecology and Culture (1994) and Among Stone Giants: The life of Katherine Routledge and her remarkable expedition to Easter Island (2003).

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ISBN 13	9780714150246
ISBN 10	071415024X
Titel	Object in Focus: Hoa Hakananai'a
Autor	Jo Anne Van Tilberg
Serie	Objects In Focus
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	British Museum Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2004-11-22
Seitenanzahl	64
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