Resource Spotlight | “The Mystery of Easter Island: The Story of an Expedition” by Mrs. Scoresby Routledge

 

Rei Miro, Easter Island
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The Mystery of Easter Island

The Story of an Expedition

 
 

by Mrs. Scoresby Routledge

 
 

This resource is generously provided by University of Pennsylvania Museum.

 
 

Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; view of a moai (figure carving) head in profile on a slope, with a second moai (figure carving) head in the background standing upright; Rano Raraku, Easter Island. Photographed by: Katherine Maria Routledge in 1914-1915. Oc,G.T.1468
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Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; view of a moai (figure carving) head partially buried under rocks; Ahu Tongariki, Easter Island. Photographed by: Katherine Maria Routledge in 1914-1915. Oc,G.T.1491
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Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; view of a moai (figure carving) lying on the ground, with five moai (figure carving) heads standing upright, buried in the ground, in the background; a South American man is sitting on a horse on the left of the image for scale; Rano Raraku, Easter Island. Photographed by: Katherine Maria Routledge in 1914-1915. Oc,G.T.1478
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Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; view of three moai (figure carving) standing upright in the ground, partially excavated; Rano Raraku, Easter Island. Photographed by: Katherine Maria Routledge in 1914-1915. Oc,G.T.1470
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Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; view of a moai (figure carving) standing upright, with a Chilean boy sitting on a horse for scale; Rano Raraku, Easter Island. Photographed by: Katherine Maria Routledge in 1914-1915. Oc,G.T.2605
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Photograph (black and white); lantern slide of an engraving from an original drawing by William Hodges; depicting two moai (figure carvings) beside the sea on the left of the image; a human skeleton lying fallen on the ground, presumably where the person died; view of cliffs in the background; and a Polynesian man standing in the background holding a spear(?) and a basket(?); Easter Island. Photographed by Katherine Maria Routledge, 20th century. Oc,G.T.1510
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Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; view southeast from the base of the exterior slopes of the quarry, with two moai (human figure carving) lying on the ground; a man is standing in the centre with one foot on the carved stone, wearing a western-style clothing and a hat; a second man is sitting on the far right of the carved stone with his back to the camera; Rano Raraku, Easter Island. Photographed by: Katherine Maria Routledge in 1914-1915. Oc,G.T.1458
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Lantern Slide (black and white); view of an in relief carving of three birdman figures; Mata Ngarau, Easter Island. Photographed by: Katherine Maria Routledge in 1914-1915. Oc,G.T.1647
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Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; view of a slope with a sheer cliff down to the sea, and a moai (figure carving) fallen backwards, on the edge of the cliff, with a South American boy sitting in front of the sculpture for scale; Ahu Runga Vae, Easter Island. Photographed by: Katherine Maria Routledge in 1914-1915. Oc,G.T.1495
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Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; view of a moai (figure carving) lying on its back on the ground, with William Scoresby Routledge(?) sitting in front of the sculpture as a scale; Easter Island. Photographed by: Katherine Maria Routledge in 1914-1915.
Oc,G.T.1477
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Moai on Easter Island, a painting by William Hodges (participant in Captain James Cook’s expedition), 1775–1776.

 

Colophon

Author | Mrs. Scoresby Routledge
Publisher | Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Ld. | London and Aylesbury
Year of Publication | 1920

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