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María Virginia (Viki) Haoa Cardinali was born in 1955 in Rapa Nui, of Polynesian and European roots. On her mother’s side, she descends from her great-grandfather Rafael Cardinali Lazzarini, an Italian who came on the ship Apoline Emilie, which grounded ashore in Apina in 1896. On her paternal side, she is a descendant of Jean-Baptiste Dutrou-Bornier, through the two daughters he had: Caroline and Marta. On the Rapa Nui ancestral side, she is a descendant of Pakomio Maori Ure Kino, who managed to return to Rapa Nui after living hell as a slave in the guano steads in Peru.