Huli Huli bought the Kahiki's moai about 1½ years ago from a private ... performances by a Columbus-based Polynesian dance company, and vendors selling tiki memorabilia. It's a hefty price ...

The moai were carved with stone tools ... buzzes with Internet cafés, bars, and dance clubs, and cars and pickup trucks clog the streets on Saturday nights. Wealthy tourists drop a thousand ...

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the question of how the Rapanui people transported the multi-ton statues, or moai, from their quarries to their final ceremonial ahu ...

The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ethnographers, archaeologists, and visitors to the island since the first European explorers arrived here in 1722. In their isolation ...

The oldest moai dates back to 1300 ... The two-week "contest of dance, drama, cookery, song and sport" reflects the essential need of the Rapa Nui to "connect with their past, their present ...