Celebration of Heritage Day – Rapa Nui 2025 The body as a canvas, the earth as a pigment, and memory as inspiration: this was how the first edition of the TĀ TŪ Painted Body Festival on Rapa Nui was live. By: Museo Rapa Nui – © Photos by Miguel Carrasco
by Claudia BerardiPhotos by © Nikole Albornoz This graphic-sculptural montage offers a selection of essential intersections between pieces of traditional carving and the ancestral oralities of Rapa Nui culture. “The ancient and ongoing dialogue between matter and spirit; between the tangible and the ethereal; between the social body and the
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,
Rapa Nui Soldiers in the War of the Pacific by Cristián Moreno PakaratiHistoriador / Historian It was a point of pride for the Rapanui families of the past when one of their members would join the Chilean Armed Forces. To see them in uniform with their proud bearing was a
Ngaru’a or Neck Pillow Antiguamente los isleños no buscaban mayores comodidades en sus Hare Paenga (casas bote), en los Hare Mauku (habitaciones de piedra techada con pasto) o en la caverna que eligieron para vivir; para ellos estos espacios eran solamente lugares donde protegerse de la lluvia, abrigarse y dormir
The Origin of the Polynesian Peoples La Cultura Lapita · The Lapita Culture Among the rare archaeological certainties that we have on the ancient Polynesian peoples, one undisputed fact stands out: The Polynesian people descend from the creators of a complex culture, today called “Lapita”. This group established itself in
The rebirth of ancestral medicine The Rapanui community of today is in the process of reclaiming many different aspects of their social and political life. One of them is the rebirth of ancestral medicine. Currently on the Island is an old field hospital, built in the 1970s, which was originally
