Provo Daily Enquirer | 1892-08-30 | Page 3 | Carvings on Easter Island |

Type	issue
Date	1892-08-30
Paper	Provo Daily Enquirer
Language	eng
City	Provo
County	Utah
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Carvings on Easter Island
Type	article
Date	1892-08-30
Paper	Provo Daily Enquirer
Language	eng
City	Provo
County	Utah
Page	3
Contributors	Public ledger (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1836)
OCR Text	Show carvings on easter island the hard volcanic rock 0 p easter island is covered wit with car carvings intended to represent human faces birds fishes fi she I 1 and mythical animals fishes and tur alc tlc alea appear colimon among these sculptures but the most common figure is a MY mythical ethical animal halt human in ia form with bowed back and long claw like legs and arms according to the natives this symbol was intended to represent the god meke iheke melre meke the great r spirit of the sea philadelphia ledger
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pr905z/1452639