A decades-long stretch of extremely low precipitation in the 1500s may have spurred cultural changes among the Rapa Nui ...

James Di Lorento, SI Local artists are reviving the ... the Rapa Nui people have re-emerged from the shadows of the past, recovering and reinventing their ancient art and culture.

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon. A society of Polynesian origin that settled there c. A.D. 300 established a powerful, imaginative and ...

It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island - the most remote inhabited island ... Here's the anthropologist and art historian Steve Hooper: "It was a way of human beings who were alive relating to, and ...

Hotu Matu'a and his family landed on Easter Island at Anakena Beach. Te-Pito-te-Henua, "end of the land," or "land's end," is an early name for the island. On Rapa Nui, the more modern ...

There is a Rapa-nui wedding ceremony, complete with loincloth, awaiting you on Chile’s Easter Island. Chilean tour companies offer a range of ceremonies on beautiful island locales that include ...

Easter Island, or its Polynesian name of Rapa Nui, is one of the world’s most isolated inhabited islands. Congressman Faleomavaega has been representing the territory of American Samoa in the ...

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon. A society of Polynesian origin that settled there c. A.D. 300 established a powerful, imaginative and ...

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A ... In bringing the Song of Rapa Nui to the world, pianist brings music education home Mahani Teave grew up on ...