Queen of Easter Island meets Pinart in 1877
French explorer Alphonse Pinart, onetime husband of Zelia Nuttall, is introduced to the Queen of Easter Island in 1877. Drawing by Emile Bayard (1837-1891).
A Pinart
French explorer Alphonse Pinart, onetime husband of Zelia Nuttall, is introduced to the Queen of Easter Island in 1877.
FMIB 36510 Human Skulls from Easter Island
Human Skulls from Easter Island Subject: Craniology Geographic Subject: Easter Island Tag: People, Antiquities
A moai lying on the ground, face upwards; on the moai statue road(?), ...
Lantern Slide (black and white); a moai (figure carving) lying on the ground, face upwards; on the moai statue road(?), with a White man wearing a hat and a moustache, sitting in front of it, for scale; Easter ... More
Chilean boy next to unexcavated moai, Rano Raraku, Oc,G.T.1643, Mana E...
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of a moai (figure carving) having been excavated but still lying face upwards in the ground; a Chilean(?) boy is sitting behind the sculpture, for scale; Rano Raraku, Easter Island.
Chilean boy sitting down by cliff with view of Marotiri; Poike, Oc,G.T...
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of Marotiri, islet, photographed from the mainland with a Chilean(?) boy sitting down by the cliff, for scale; Poike, Easter Island. Photographic process
Chilean boy sitting underneath the sculpture, for scale; Rano Raraku, ...
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of a moai (figure carving) within the rocks of the quarry, facing upwards, and attached to the rock by a keel or pedestal; a Chilean(?) boy is sitting underneath the sculpt... More
Chilean boy sitting with his legs crossed, on a rock inside a cave, wi...
Lantern Slide (black and white); a Chilean(?) boy sitting with his legs crossed, on a rock inside a cave, with painted rock art in white and a dark colour; Ana Kai Tangata(?), Easter Island.
Chilean boy sitting with his legs crossed, on a rock inside a cave, wi...
Lantern Slide (black and white); a Chilean(?) boy sitting with his legs crossed, on a rock inside a cave, with painted rock art in white and a dark colour; Ana Kai Tangata(?), Easter Island.
Chilean horse rider in front of moai at Rano Raraku, Oc,G.T.1611, Mana...
Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; view of a moai (figure carving) standing upright, with a Chilean boy sitting on a horse for scale; Rano Raraku, Easter Island.
Chilean boy standing beside a large round stone used as part of a moai...
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of a moai (figure carving) within the rocks of the quarry, facing upwards, and attached to the rock by a keel or pedestal; a Chilean(?) boy is sitting underneath the sculpt... More
Chilean horse rider in front of moai at Rano Raraku, Oc,G.T.2605, Mana...
Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; view of a moai (figure carving) standing upright, with a Chilean boy sitting on a horse for scale; Rano Raraku, Easter Island.
Close up view of the back of a moai excavated but still standing uprig...
Lantern Slide (black & white); close up view of the back of a moai (figure carving) excavated but still standing upright in the ground; a man is standing in the excavated gap beside the scultpure for scale' the... More
Eugène Eyraud
Eugène Eyraud (1820 – 23 August 1868) was a lay friar of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and the first Westerner to live on Easter Island.
Four South American men standing around two excavated moai; Rano Rarak...
Lantern Slide (black and white); four South American men standing around two excavated moai (figure carvings) lying on the ground, face upward; the men are holding various tools for excavation; Rano Raraku, Eas... More
Landscape view, beside the coast, with a moai fallen on its back, towa...
Lantern Slide (black and white); landscape view, beside the coast, with a moai (figure carving) fallen on its back, towards the sea, and a man sitting on a horse for scale; Ahu Tetenga, Easter Island. Photograp... More
Man and Horse Near Inscribed Rocks, Possibly Pictographs December 1886
Man and Horse Near Inscribed Rocks, Possibly Pictographs December 1886 Public domain image of an American navy ship, 18th-19th-century, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Manager's House, Mataveri, Oc,G.T.1545, Mana Expedition to Easter Isla...
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of Mr Edmunds(?) sitting on his porch of his western-style house; Mataveri, Easter Island.
Moai, front pages, The Mystery of Easter Island, published 1919
View of a moai (figure carving) standing upright, with a Chilean boy sitting on a horse for scale; Rano Raraku, Easter Island.
Oc,G.T.1455, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black and white); an unfinished moai (human figure carving) lying on the ground surrounded by the quarry rock; a man wearing western-style clothing and a hat is sitting beside the carving for sca... More
Oc,G.T.1453, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; view southward along the exterior slopes of the quarry with a moai (human figure carving) partially buried in the ground; a boy is sitting on the ground beside two o... More
Oc,B30.9, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Photograph (black and white); view looking out to sea; men, women and children standing, sitting on horses on land; two ships at sea in background; Cook Bay, Easter Island. Gelatin silver print
Oc,G.T.1457, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black and white); view northeast of the exterior slopes of the quarry, with several moai (human figure carving) on the slopes; a young man with a horse is standing in the foreground to one of the... More
Oc,G.T.1456, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of two moai (human figure carving) being excavated; William Scoresby Routledge(?), a White man, on the far left is watching, whilst a Polynesian(?) man is kneeling down bes... More
Oc,G.T.1458, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black and white); view southeast from the base of the exterior slopes of the quarry, with two moai (human figure carving) lying on the ground; a man is standing in the centre with one foot on the... More
Oc,G.T.1461, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black & white); view inside the quarry crater looking east towards Poike, with a quarried moia (figure carving) lying on its side; a man is standing in the foreground, for scale(?), wearing weste... More
Oc,G.T.1460, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black & white); view of a partially excavated moai (figure carving), with William Scoresby Routledge(?) sitting on the above ground looking at the sculpture, wearing western-style clothing and a ... More
Oc,G.T.1463, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black & white); view of a moai (figure carving) lying on the ground; a man is standing on the left of the sculpture for scale, with his left hand touching the stone; Rano Raraku, Easter Island.
Oc,G.T.1466, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black & white); view of a moai (figure carving) lying on the ground, called Tai-hare-atua, with a stylised carved head is broken off, and lies slightly above on the slope; the boy leaning on the ... More
Oc,G.T.1472, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black & white); view of a single quarried and half keeled moai (figure carving), still attached to the bedrock; a young man is standing beside the carved stone for scale, and is holding onto a pi... More
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.1504, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; a South American(?) man wearing a white apron, standing at an entrance to a tent; Easter Island.
Oc,G.T.1547, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black and white); a White(?) man standing outside a manavai (rocked up garden plot) which is overgrown with fig trees, and a younger South American man standing inside the circle of stones; Easter Island.
Oc,G.T.1548, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black and white); group of men each on a horse, herding cattle; stone walls; Easter Island.
Oc,G.T.1560, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black and white) of two photographs spliced together; view of flat ground, with a person on a horse beside some large rocks in the distance, and the sea in the background; Easter Island.
Oc,G.T.1561, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of north coast landscape; with a person standing on a stone wall; sea in the background; Easter Island.
Oc,G.T.1625, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of an ahu (ceremonial) structure in the distance, with a cliff on the left of the image; Hotu Iti, Easter Island.
Oc,G.T.1580, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of a rock formation being eroded by the sea; a Polynesian(?) man is standing on the far right of the image for scale; Easter Island(?).
Oc,G.T.1621, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of two manavai areas (stone walled gardens), and a fallen moai (figure carving), with a Polynesian man wearing a plant fibre hat, sitting down for scale; Ahu Te Pa Haha Tea... More
Oc,G.T.1635, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of a circular stone house, with a low square entrance; a Chilean(?) boy and a Polynesian(?) man sitting outside on a stone, for scale; a horse on the right of the image; Ea... More
Oc,G.T.1634, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of a circular stone house, with a low square entrance; a Chilean(?) boy and a Polynesian(?) man standing outside for scale; a horse on the right of the image; Easter Island.
Oc,G.T.1629, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of rocky shoreline, with entrance to Ana Havea, cave, on the right, with two Polynesian(?) boys on a horse each, and a third horse, beside the cave, for scale; Easter Island.
Oc,G.T.1636, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of a large boulder, at the bottom of a cliff, with a Chilean(?) boy sitting beside it, for scale; Poike, Easter Island.
Oc,G.T.1694, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black and white); a moai (figure carving), facing upwards within the quarry, surrounded by three rock walls; a Chilean boy standing at the back, for scale; Easter Island.
Oc,G.T.1784, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black and white), four lantern slides mounted together; view of Ahu Akahanga (sacred site & wall); a Chilean(?) boy, a White man, and a Polynesian(?) man standing beside one of the large stones i... More
Oc,G.T.1771, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum
Lantern Slide (black and white); view beside the shoreline, with Rano Raraku(?) quarry in the background on the right; a small stone pyramid-shaped ahu(?) structure beside the shore, with a man standing beside ... More
Polynesian(?) man sitting on the ground with a horse next to partially...
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
South American(?) young man sitting inside a stone house, wearing a pl...
Lantern Slide (black and white); a South American(?) young man sitting inside a stone house, wearing a plant fibre hat; Easter Island. Photographic process
Two dead cows in front of house at Hanga Roa, Oc,G.T.1546, Mana Expedi...
Lantern Slide (black and white); two dead cows (one carcass) on the grass in the foreground; a small lit fire; front of a large wooden church with a White(?) man wearing a shirt and tie sitting by the doorway, ... More
Two Polynesian(?) men kneeling on the ground, measuring the length of ...
Lantern Slide (black and white); two Polynesian(?) men kneeling on the ground, measuring the length of the foundations of a hare paenga (overturned canoe shaped house); four horses grazing in the background; sl... More
View of a back of moai with a man standing on the left of the sculptur...
Lantern Slide (black & white); view of a back of moai (figure carving) head, partially buried in the ground; a man standing on the left of the sculpture with his back to the camera and one hand on the left earl... More
View of a hare moa made from stones with three or four small entrances...
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of a hare moa (chicken house) made from stones with three or four small entrances; the sea in the view behind; a South American(?) man is sitting on a horse for scale, on t... More
View of a large round stone used as part of a moai, with a White man l...
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of a large round stone used as part of a moai (figure carving), with a White man lying on the ground beside it, for scale; Ahu Hekii, Easter Island.
View of a large round stone, to be used as part of a moai, with a Poly...
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of a large round stone, to be used as part of a moai (figure carving), with a Polynesian(?) man standing beside it, for scale; outside of Puna Pau, Easter Island.
View of a moai being excavated by five Polynesian and South American m...
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of a moia (figure carving) in the process of being excavated by five Polynesian(?) and South American(?) men, using ropes; a horse in the foreground; Rano Raraku, Easter Is... More
View of a moai (stone figure carving) half visable; a boy on a horse i...
Photograph (black and white); view of a moai (stone figure carving) half visable; a boy on a horse is sitting in front of the figure; four white letters visible on neck of figure; photographed on slopes of Rano... More
View of a moai having fallen and broken in two, on a steep slope with ...
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of a moai (figure carving) having fallen and broken in two, on a steep slope with large rocks; a Chilean(?) boy sits beside the sculpture on the right, for scale; Easter Is... More
View of a moai head standing upright in the ground, with a boy sitting...
Lantern Slide (black & white); view of a moai (figure carving) head standing upright in the ground, with a boy sitting on top of the carved head for scale; Rano Raraku, Easter Island.
View of a moai lying in the ground with the boy standing on the left o...
Lantern Slide (black & white); view of a moai (figure carving) lying in the ground, partially excavated, with the bedrock visible on either side; the boy standing on the left of the sculpture, resting one hand ... More
View of a moai lying on its back on the ground, with William Scoresby ...
Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; view of a moai (figure carving) lying on its back on the ground, with William Scoresby Routledge(?) sitting in front of the sculpture as a scale; Easter Island.
View of a moai lying on the ground, with five moai heads standing upri...
Lantern Slide (black & white); view of a moai (figure carving) lying on the ground, with five moai (figure carving) heads standing upright, buried in the ground, in the background; a man is sitting on a horse o... More
View of a moai lying on the ground; a man is standing on the left of t...
Lantern Slide (black & white); view of a moai (figure carving) lying on the ground; a man is standing on the left of the sculpture for scale, with his left hand touching the stone; outside Rano Raraku, Easter I... More
View of a moai, with its face eroded, partially excavated, standing up...
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of a moai (figure carving), with its face eroded, partially excavated, standing upright in the ground, with a South American young man standing beside it on the left, for s... More
View of a round carved piece of stone, part of a moai, with a man stan...
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of a round carved piece of stone, part of a moai (figure carving), with a man standing beside the stone for scale, wearing a pair of trousers, a white shirt, and a cap, par... More
View of a slope with many moai with two Polynesian(?) men on horses fo...
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of a slope with many moai (figure carving) fallen on the ground, and some moai (figure carvings) partially buried; two Polynesian(?) men on horses for scale; Rano Raraku, E... More
View of hill, with two moai (stone figure carving heads) visible; a bo...
Photograph (black and white); view of hill, with two moai (stone figure carving heads) visible; a boy sitting on a horse in between both sculptures; Rano Raraku, Easter Island. Gelatin silver print
View of moai with three men and three horses, Rano Raraku, Oc,G.T.1469...
Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; view of a moai (figure carving) lying on the ground, partially excavated; William Scoresby Routledge(?) standing in the foreground in profile, with two South America... More
View of rocky shoreline, with entrance to Ana Havea, cave, on the left...
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of rocky shoreline, with entrance to Ana Havea, cave, on the left, and a Polyneisan(?) boy standing at the point where fresh water comes out, in the centre of the image; Ea... More
View of Routledge's field camp below the quarry; Rano Raraku, Oc,G.T.1...
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of Routledge's field camp below the quarry; two tents pitched inside a manavai (round stone wall) built originally to protect a garden but used in this instance to keep she... More
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
View of stone wall, Ahu Tongariki, Oc,G.T.1494, Mana Expedition to Eas...
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of a stone wall, with a White man wearing a cap, standing on some rocks, facing the wall, leaning his left hand on the wall, for scale; Ahu Tongariki, Easter Island. Photog... More
View of the back of a moai with petroglyph carvings, partially excavat...
Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; view of the back of a moai (figure carving) with petroglyph carvings including a double loop and several canoe shapes; the sculpture is standing upright in the groun... More
View of the back of two partially excavated moai with a Polynesian(?) ...
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
View of the back of two moai heads partially collapsed, with a man sta...
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of the back of two moai (figure carving) heads partially collapsed, with a man standing on the left of the first sculpture and a second man sitting beside the same sculptur... More
View of the foundation for the door and front of a hare paenga, with a...
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of the foundation for the door and front of a hare paenga (overturned canoe shaped house), with a Chilean(?) boy sitting on one of the stones, for scale; Easter Island. Pho... More
View of three men digging using pick axes to excavate two moai, with o...
Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; view of three men digging using pick axes to excavate two moai (figure carving), with one boy watching; Rano Raraku, Easter Island.
View of two manavai areas, and a fallen moai, with a Polynesian man we...
Lantern Slide (black and white); view of two manavai areas (stone walled gardens), and a fallen moai (figure carving), with a Polynesian man wearing a plant fibre hat, sitting down for scale; Ahu Te Pa Haha Tea... More