The mystery of Easter island: the story of an expedition

by Katherine Routledge

FIG. 42.
AHU MAITAKI-TE-MOA, SEAWARD SIDE.
An image ahu partially destroyed and changed to semi-pyramid type. A statue from Raraku lies in foreground; another statue of different stone forms part of the main wall.

FIG. 43
AHU RUNGA-VAE, ON SOUTH COAST, UNDERMINED BY THE SEA.
Statue has fallen backwards.

PREHISTORIC REMAINS

STATUES AND CROWNS

FIG. 44.
[Opposite fig. 45

FIG. 45.
RANO RARAKU FROM THE SEA.