which means ‘lost or stolen friend’ in the language of Easter Island’s indigenous Rapa Nui people. Built to symbolize an ancestor’s spirit, the statue is believed to date back to ...

Easter Island, known as Rapa Nui in the local language ... an 8-foot-tall basalt figure known as Hoa Hakananai’a (“lost or stolen friend”), which was taken without permission in 1868.

The museum has two moai statues which were taken from the Chilean territory of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, in 1868 ... to return the Hoa Hakananai'a, or "Stolen Friend", to Rapa Nui.

Easter Island is a Chilean island located in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. It's most widely known for the incredible stone statues - called moai - that were created and scattered across the ...

A wildfire on Easter Island has caused "irreparable" damage to some of its iconic stone-carved statues, according to authorities. The blaze, which is being treated as arson, "totally charred" a ...

The museum currently displays two moai, taken from the Chilean territory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) by British surveyors ... “How do you feel about displaying stolen artefacts?”.