by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Dec 31, 2019 | Testimony from the Past
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 in...
by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Dec 30, 2019 | Testimony from the Past
María Angata ……… y la Rebelión de & the Rebellion of 1914 Maria Angata Veri Tahi, daughter of Hare Kohou (of the Miru tribe) and Veri Tahi a Kau (of the Haumoana tribe) was born in 1854. During her childhood, when she was barely 8 years old, she...
by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Dec 27, 2019 | Testimony from the Past
Niso Tuki Tepano In the past, it was a custom to raise children from another family, for various reasons: not being able to have one’s own children, not being able to raise one’s own child or simply because a family wanted to have more children, as was the...
by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Nov 19, 2019 | Testimony from the Past
Patricia Lillo Chinchilla Patricia Lillo, daughter of Eusebio Lillo, thus a descendant of the composer of the Chilean national anthem, and Elba Chinchilla, has lived for more than 50 years on Easter Island, as a result of her older sister Elvira marring Marcelo...
by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Oct 25, 2019 | Testimony from the Past
Alberto Hotus Chavez Alberto Hotus, 82, is Chairman of the Rapa Nui Council of Elders. This was created in 1980 with the aim of recovering the investiture of Rapanui chiefs and rejecting the delivery of individual titles of land ownership, a situation that was opposed...
by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Oct 25, 2019 | Testimony from the Past
“Matusalem” Masú Hey Masú Hey’s family name really should be Edmunds. His father, Enrique, is the son of Henry Percival Edmunds, the English administrator for the Williamson & Balfour sheep company between 1903 and 1930, and of Sofía Hey, the mother of...
