Easter Island Head moai

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If you want me to create some custom models for you, just ask me on Instagram Direct @boris3dstudio https://www.instagram.com/boris3dstudio/ The model is still unhealed. I don't have the time to fix it now. If you can repair it for printing, make a Remix, or send me a new model to re-upload it. Easter Island, known as Rapa Nui in the native language and Spanish: Isla de Pascua, is a Chilean island located in the southeastern Pacific Ocean at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. Easter Island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 existing monumental statues called moai, created by the early Rapa Nui people. In 1995, UNESCO named Easter Island a World Heritage Site, with much of the island protected within Rapa Nui National Park. It's believed that Easter Island's Polynesian inhabitants arrived on Easter Island sometime near 1200 AD.[3] They developed a thriving and industrious culture, as shown by the island's numerous enormous stone moai and other artifacts. However, land clearing for cultivation and the introduction of the Polynesian rat led to gradual deforestation.[3] By the time Europeans arrived in 1722, the island's population was estimated to be 2,000-3,000. European diseases, Peruvian slave raiding expeditions in the 1860s, and emigration to other islands, e.g. Tahiti, further depleted the population, reducing it to a low of 111 native inhabitants in 1877.[4] Chile annexed Easter Island in 1888. In 1966, the Rapa Nui were granted Chilean citizenship. In 2007 the island gained the constitutional status of "special territory." Administratively, it belongs to the Valparaíso Region, comprising a single commune of the Province Isla de Pascua.[5] The 2017 Chilean census registered 7,750 people on the island, of whom 3,512 (45%) considered themselves Rapa Nui.[6] Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world.[7] The nearest inhabited land is Pitcairn Island, with only around 50 residents in 2013; it's located 2,075 kilometres away.[8] The nearest town with a population over 500 is Rikitea, on the island of Mangareva, 2,606 km away; the nearest continental point lies in central Chile, 3,512 kilometers away. Easter Island is considered part of Insular Chile. Moai (About this soundlisten), or mo‘ai, are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island in eastern Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500.[1][2] Nearly half remain at Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry; hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the island's perimeter. Almost all moai have overly large heads that are three-eighths the size of the whole statue. The moai are chiefly the living faces (aringa ora) of deified ancestors (aringa ora ata tepuna).[3] The statues still gazed inland across their clan lands when Europeans first visited the island in 1722, but all of them had fallen by the latter part of the 19th century.[4] The production and transportation of the more than 900 statues[5][6] is considered a remarkable creative and physical feat.[7] The tallest moai erected, called Paro, was almost 10 metres high and weighed 82 tonnes.[8][9] The heaviest moai erected was a shorter but squatter moai at Ahu Tongariki, weighing 86 tonnes. One unfinished sculpture, if completed, would have been approximately 21 m tall, with a weight of about 145-165 tons.[10] The moai were toppled in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, possibly as a result of European contact or internecine tribal wars.[11]