Rapa Nui or Rapanui (English: /ˌræpəˈnuːi/, Rapa Nui: [ˈɾapa ˈnu.i], Spanish: [ˈrapa ˈnu.i]), also known as Pascuan (/ˈpæskjuən/) or Pascuense, is an Eastern...
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The Rapa Nui (Rapa Nui: [ˈɾapa ˈnu.i], Spanish: [ˈrapa ˈnu.i]) are the indigenous Polynesian peoples of Easter Island. The easternmost Polynesian culture...
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As in other Polynesian islands, Rapa Nui tattooing had a fundamentally spiritual connotation. (Rapa Nui, Easter Island.) In some cases the tattoos were...
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Easter Island (redirect from Rapa Nui)
Easter Island (Spanish: Isla de Pascua, [ˈisla ðe ˈpaskwa]; Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui, [ˈɾapa ˈnu.i]) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern...
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Look up Rapa Nui, rapa nui, Rapanui, or rapanui in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rapa Nui is the native name for Easter Island. Rapa Nui may also refer...
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Rongorongo (redirect from Rapa Nui script)
Rongorongo (/ˈrɒŋɡoʊˈrɒŋɡoʊ/ or /ˈrɒŋoʊˈrɒŋoʊ/; Rapa Nui: roŋoroŋo [ˈɾoŋoˈɾoŋo]) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island...
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Motu Nui (large island in the Rapa Nui language) is the largest of three islets just south of Easter Island and is the westernmost place in Chile. All...
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King of Easter Island (redirect from Kings of Rapa Nui)
double-hulled canoe to "The Center of the Earth" and landed at Anakena, Rapa Nui (Easter Island). According to Steven Roger Fischer's Island at the End...
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Hanga Roa (category Articles containing Rapa Nui-language text)
(Spanish pronunciation: [ˈ(x)aŋɡa ˈro.a]; Rapa Nui: Haŋa Roa, Rapa Nui pronunciation: [ˈha.ŋa ˈɾo.a]) (Rapanui language: Long bay) is the main town, harbour...
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History of Easter Island (redirect from History of Rapa Nui)
(also called Rapa Nui), located in the mid-Pacific Ocean, was, for most of its history, one of the most isolated. Its inhabitants, the Rapa Nui, have endured...
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Moai (category Articles containing Rapa Nui-language text)
MOH-eye; Spanish: moái; Rapa Nui: moʻai, lit. 'statue') are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in eastern...
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Rapa-Nui is a 1994 American historical action-adventure film directed by Kevin Reynolds and co-produced by Kevin Costner, who starred in Reynolds's previous...
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Flag of Easter Island (redirect from Flag of rapa nui)
The flag of Easter Island (Rapa Nui: Te Reva Reimiro or Te Reva Rapa Nui) is the flag of Easter Island, a special territory of Chile. It was first flown...
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Polynesian language. There are three varieties of the Rapa language currently being spoken in French Polynesia: Old Rapa, Reo Rapa and New Rapa. Old Rapa has...
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Motu Iti, or Little island in the Rapa Nui language, is a small uninhabited islet near Motu Nui, about a mile from Rano Kau on the south western corner...
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Atamu Tekena (category Rapa Nui monarchs)
ʻAo Tahi (c. 1850 – August 1892) was the penultimate ‘Ariki or King of Rapa Nui (i.e. Easter Island) from 1883 until his death. In 1888, he signed a treaty...
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Rapa Nui National Park (Spanish: Parque nacional Rapa Nui) is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located on Easter Island, Chile. Rapa Nui...
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Orongo (category Articles containing Rapa Nui-language text)
Orongo (Rapa Nui: Oroŋo) is a stone village and ceremonial center at the southwestern tip of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). It consists of a collection of...
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Juan Tepano (category Rapa Nui people)
Juan Tepano Rano ʻa Veri ʻAmo (4 March 1867 – 8 November 1947) was a Rapa Nui leader of Easter Island. He served as an informant for Euro-American scholars...
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Sebastian Englert (category Linguists of Rapa Nui)
and catechized the faithful in the Rapa Nui language. He also translated popular Catholic devotions into Rapa Nui and encouraged native religious song...
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Tiare Aguilera Hey (category Rapa Nui women)
Maeva Carolina Aguilera Hey is a Rapa Nui attorney and politician. In 2021, she was elected to represent the Rapa Nui people in the Chilean Constitutional...
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William Mulloy (section Rapa Nui archaeology)
production, transportation and erection of the monumental statuary on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) known as moai. Mulloy was born May 3, 1917, in Salt Lake...
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Marae (category Articles containing Rapa Nui-language text)
Easter Island, a central stone ahu or a'u is placed. In the Easter Island Rapa Nui culture, the term ahu or a'u has become a synonym for the whole marae complex...
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Pascuense cuisine (redirect from History of Rapa Nui cuisine)
otherwise known as Easter Island cuisine or Rapa Nui cuisine incorporates the influences of the indigenous Rapa Nui people and Latin America. Notable ingredients...
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department has created primary education texts in the Rapa Nui language. In 2017, the Nid Rapa Nui, a non-governmental organization was also created with...
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ʻOkina (category Articles containing Rapa Nui-language text)
Machine "Learn Rapa Nui language". Easter Island Travel. Retrieved 10 September 2024. Kieviet, Paulus (2016-12-12). A Grammar of Rapa Nui. Studies in Diversity...
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Rapa, also called Rapa Iti, or "Little Rapa", to distinguish it from Easter Island, whose Polynesian name is Rapa Nui, is the largest and only inhabited...
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Isla Salas y Gómez (category Articles containing Rapa Nui-language text)
known as Isla Sala y Gómez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈisla ˈsalaj ˈɣomes]; Rapa Nui: Motu Motiro Hiva), is a small uninhabited Chilean island in the Pacific...
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Moisés Tuʻu Hereveri (category Rapa Nui monarchs)
September 1925) was elected ‘ariki (king) of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) from 1901 until 1902. He was the last Rapa Nui to claim the traditional kingship in the...
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Māori people (category Articles containing Rapa Nui-language text)
large area encompassing Tonga, Samoa, Tahiti, Hawaiʻi, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) – and finally New Zealand. The date of first arrival and settlement is...
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