The 16-foot moai head once spouted fire from its perch outside the beloved Polynesian restaurant. Now it needs a lot of work to bring it back to life.

Damaged Moai statues are seen after a wildfire at a local park in Easter Island, Chile, in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters on October 7, 2022. . (Rapa Nui Municipality/Handout via ...

Smith is semi-retired and works on art in his spare time – particularly sculptures. In about a year and a half, he created six replica Easter Island Moai heads with plans to add another one soon.

The women’s hairstyle evokes the pukao, a hat made of reddish stone placed on the heads of the moai. Damaged moai statues stand on Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui, Chile, on Nov, 27, 2022.

More: Saving George, the Kahiki's iconic tiki statue The project has been on hold for a while, though, Ball said. The moai heads and George were created for Kahiki by Columbus artist Philip E ...

A potentially deliberate wildfire on Easter Island has wrought irreparable damage to the ancient moai head statues that dot the landscape of the Rapa Nui Natural Park, near the island’s Rano ...

The moai statues are synonymous with Chile's Easter Island (Image: Getty Images/Image Source) Around 900 Moai are known to exist after they were carved by the Rapa Nui people between 1250 and 1500.

A new Moai, one of Easter Island's iconic statues, was found in the bed of a dry laguna in a volcano crater, the Indigenous community that administers the site on the Chilean island has said.

The statue is relatively small at 5.2 feet, as compared with some of the other broadly featured heads and torsos that reach as tall as 72 feet. It was found by researchers from the University of ...

Researchers have found a new moai statue in a dry lake on the Chilean island of Rapa Nui, joining the approximately 1,000 other iconic monolithic sculptures on what is internationally known as ...

The statue is relatively small at 1.6 meters (5.2 feet), as compared with some of the other broadly featured heads and torsos that reach as tall as 22 meters (72 feet).