historical photographs of orongo

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A Rock At Orongo Carved With Figures Of Bird-Men, The Mystery of Easter Island, published 1919

A Rock At Orongo Carved With Figures Of Bird-Men, The Mystery of Easte...

A Rock At Orongo Carved With Figures Of Bird-Men. Sculptured surface, 6 ft. by 5 ft. Routledge's Mana expedition to Easter Island in 1914-15.

Oc,B102.35, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

Oc,B102.35, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

Photograph (black and white); carving in stone, in-situ, of a bird-man; Orongo, Easter Island.

Oc,G.T.1481, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

Oc,G.T.1481, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; view of a quarry cliff showing the thin slabs of basalt, which is locally known as keho, and used in the cantilevered walls and roofs of the houses in Orongo; Rano K... More

Oc,G.T.1484, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

Oc,G.T.1484, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

Lantern Slide (black and white); view of a broken interior of a stone wall house; Orongo, Easter Island.

Oc,G.T.1486, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

Oc,G.T.1486, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; view of two entrances to stone wall houses, with uncarved door posts; Orongo, Easter Island.

Oc,G.T.1483, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

Oc,G.T.1483, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

Lantern Slide (black and white); a man sitting beside a door post carved with makemake (Chief bird cult) figure, excavated; Orongo, Easter Island.

Oc,G.T.1614, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

Oc,G.T.1614, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

Lantern Slide (black and white); view of five excavated entrances to houses; the carved rocks in the foreground form part of the pavement; the building on the left has collapsed partially showing the room benea... More

Oc,G.T.1616, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

Oc,G.T.1616, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

Lantern Slide (black and white); view of bedrock, with the remains of an unexcavated, collapsed stone roof of a house below; Orongo, Easter Island.

Oc,G.T.1618, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

Oc,G.T.1618, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

Lantern Slide (black and white) two photographs spliced together; view of the southern interior of the crate wall, showing the mid section known as karikari; Orongo village is located on the rim of the crater, ... More

Oc,G.T.1615, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

Oc,G.T.1615, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

Lantern Slide (black and white); view of two houses made from keho (stone roof slabs) built within the slope; Orongo, Easter Island.

View of an in relief carving of three birdman figures; Mata Ngarau, Oc,G.T.1647, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

View of an in relief carving of three birdman figures; Mata Ngarau, Oc...

Lantern Slide (black and white); view of an in relief carving of three birdman figures; Mata Ngarau, Easter Island.

View of stone wall houses, with a Chilean boy standing on the right for scale; Orongo, Oc,G.T.1619, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

View of stone wall houses, with a Chilean boy standing on the right fo...

Lantern Slide (black and white); view of stone wall houses, with a Chilean boy standing on the right for scale; Orongo, Easter Island. Photographic process