Ambassador of Japan in Chile “My primary goal is to demonstrate that the Japanese people are with you.” Mayor Pedro Edmunds Paoa and Japanese Ambassador Kazuhisa Shibuya inaugurated the Comprehensive Care Center in Rapa Nui. The center, funded by the Japanese government, operates in Mataveri and serves elderly and disabled
Te tātou ‘ōro’a he Tāpati Rapa Nui 2023 Mai te toru ki te ho’e ‘ahuru mā ho’e mahana o Hetu’u Pū The details of the next Tāpati 2023 after the Covid 19 By Camila Sandoval Photos by I. Municipalidad de Isla de Pascua This celebration, which values the cultural heritage
A North American Air Force base installed on Easter Island in the 1960s was part of a project of espionage on the Soviet Union from space. The journalist Patricia Stambuk clarifies all doubts with recently declassified documents from Washington: “Rapa Nui formed part of the larger scenario of the Cold
CREMATION IN RAPA NUI Cremation is a funerary or post-funerary ritual which allows a cadaver to be disposed of cleanly. The practice dates back at least 20 thousand years among the Australian aborigines and was also customary among neolithic inhabitants of the Middle East and Europe. Among some Asiatic religions,
PURE The Endangered Sea Snail by Ernesto Díaz CabreraEstudiante Doctorado en Ciencias, mención Ecología y Biología Evolutiva de la Universidad de ChileDoctoral candidate in Science of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Chile Pure is a sea snail which has historically been used by the Easter Island community as a
Manuel Tuki At almost one hundred years of age, the sculptor Manuel A. Tuki is a shining example for the young people of today. He lives on his farm and, since he retired, he hasn’t stopped carving in stone and wood. Major works with his signature are to be found
The Battle between the Short-Ears and the Long-Ears by Cristián Moreno Pakarati · UC/Ahirenga Research / Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui One of the most well known stories of Rapa Nui tells the legend of the Hanau Momoko and the Hanau ‘E’epe, two groups which shared and then disputed the Island
