Moai statues (or simply Moai or Mo'ai) are giant monolithic human figures found on Easter Island. With overly large heads and no legs, hundreds of them were set up around the island on stone platforms called aku. Hundreds more lay in a quarry, not yet transported and erected in their final locations.
Adventures with Moai[]
In spring 1929, Indiana Jones was on a dig on Easter Island, hoping to find something that would allow him to translate Rongo-rongo tablets. Others of his expedition, including Howard Maxwell and Beaudreaux, were studying the moai statues, and had promised the local mayor that they would work to erect one that was twenty-five feet long. Islanders helped in the slow process of raising the moai, under the supervision of Davina, Maxwell, Beaudreaux, and the mayor. Maxwell and Beaudreaux argued about the origins of the moai builders, and their methods of transporting and erecting the giant statues. Marcus Brody supposed that if Jones deciphered the forgotten Rongo-ronto text, he would find the real answer to the moai mystery.[1]
Appearances[]
- Indiana Jones and the Interior World
- Indiana Jones Adventure World
- Indiana Jones und das Geheimnis der Osterinseln
