Remote Possibilities : Hoa Hakananai'a and HMS Topaze on Rapa Nui,9780861591589

Remote Possibilities : Hoa Hakananai'a and HMS Topaze on Rapa Nui

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ISBN13: 9780861591589
ISBN10: 0861591585
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-06-13
Publisher(s): David Brown Book Co
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Summary

This book describes how, when and by whom Hoa Hakanai'a was collected. It also reconstructs the underlying Rapanui aesthetic and social structure that produced Hoa Hakanai'a, and which has been obscured by time and historic accident.

Table of Contents

Image credits iv
Preface 1(1)
Orthography 2(1)
Hoa Hakananai'a and the British Museum
3(4)
The island of Rapa Nui
7(1)
Island prehistory and Rapanui legend
8(2)
Semantic architecture and the moai
10(2)
Sculptural material
12(5)
Hoa Hakananai'a and the moai design canon
17(3)
Birdman religion and iconography: AD 1400--1867
20(3)
Before HMS Topaze
23(3)
Discovery and commerce, 1722--1860
23(1)
Slave trade and Christianity, 1862--1867
24(1)
Innovation and reinvention of Rapanui belief
25(1)
HMS Topaze and her crew in the Pacific
26(12)
HMS Topaze arrives at Rapa Nui, 1 November 1868
28(2)
Exploration, 2 November 1868
30(2)
Discovering Moai Hava, 2 November 1868
32(1)
Discovering Hoa Hakananai'a, 4 November 1868
33(3)
The name Hoa Hakananai'a
36(1)
Collecting Hoa Hakananai'a, 5 November 1868
37(1)
HMS Topaze departs, 7 November 1868
37(1)
Birdman symbols on Hoa Hakananai'a
38(2)
Stylistic congruence and aesthetic continuity
40(4)
The legacy of Hoa Hakananai'a
44(1)
Moai Hava
44

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