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The birdman motif of Easter Islandarticle 1986 • Lee, Georgia
Rapa Nui • Oceania > Polynesia
Seventeenth century civil wars saw the destruction of ceremonial platforms and statuary, and a breakdown in the traditional Rapa Nui clan system based on ancestor worship. The ancestor cult wa...