Voyage to the moai of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

Voyage to the Moai of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
ARCHES: At Risk Cultural Heritage Education Series
Speakers: Dr. Wayne Ngata, Head of Matauranga Māori (Māori knowledge), Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and Dr. Steven Zucker

[@gabrielsanchez8501]

I am a Rapa Nui man living in Australia. My great grandfather was the mayor. Thank you for this video

[@allertonoff4]

yes. the dazzling thing, counter to my preconceptions, is that they gazed inwards. thank you for your enlightening posts. A4

[@fraserharding8915]

If perfect replicas can be made of the caves at Lascaux and Chauvet, and can be considered adequate substitutes, surely the same can be done for these and other artefacts (Elgin Marbles) and the originals repatriated.

[@EricMazariegos]

Fantastic viewpoints thank you..

[@Sasha0927]

I couldn't tell you why, but I was just wondering where Easter Island was the other day, so I'm glad to find out! (And to atch this video that I thought I'd watched already.)
The Wake Tapu voyage sounds amazing! What it must've been like to participate in that! As part of an application submission, I wrote a creative short story about a bird learning to fly for the first time and part of my emphasis was on how he longed to join his ancestor in the long avian tradition of migration. This kinda reminded me of that. 😅❤
I feel silly, but seeing the Polynesian triangle was a touching experience for me. You're always seeing that standard view of the world emphasizing North and South America, maybe some of Europe and Africa thrown in, but I never the Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, etc. It's always there, but really felt like a new world to me.
The Tatanua from Norn Iron was amazing! 😲 Definitely a surprise moment in the video, lol.
I identify as taonga now. 🥰

[@bohemianslouch3749]

it’s really time to return all of these artifacts and treasures to their homes and peoples.

[@reine-du-ciel]

Very powerful and important.

[@jaxongriggs3981]

so good

[@massimosquecco203]

Lots to think about here: can a dead culture, that nobody remembers anymore, brought back through rituals that cannot possibly be the original? Are they creating something new & political? Anyhow they let me think, tot a certain point, about the Hebrew culture that was brought back to the Jewish people after WWII as the unifying instrument, with the difference that they had sacred books and a lot of written material ( Cairo especially, but also Venice, Djerba, etc.). Last thought: Live the Moai of the British Museum where it is as an ambassador of their past culture: Us Europeans could admire them only there or in Paris (with fewer details and symbols). Only the privileged few could afford such travel, which involves a trip at the end of the world. If you cannot see them in person they lose much of their attractiveness and would be semi-forgotten, it would be such a pity.

[@danzo5521]

since the british came and captured some of them maybe they recorded their rituals

[@massimosquecco203]

The Paris and the British Museum specimens are spiritual, cultural, artistic ambassadors: we need to have them here because the chances to visit Rapa Nui for most of us Europeans are almost zero, still, they could inspire the human thought far from home in many ways I couldn't t even imagine right now. Let them consider immigrants for humanitarian reasons and keep them where they are now.

[@astro12745]

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[@abnormallyfunny]

Returning objects to their country of origin is against the concept of the museum. Should we further a global understanding of humanity or close ourselves off from the world?