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Article: The Moais of Easter Island.(Brief Article)
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- School Arts
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- November 1, 1998
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"Welcome to Easter Island. It has taken you more than fifteen hours to fly here from Australia. This is one of the most remote and isolated places in the world. The Polynesians traveled in catamarans over thousands of ocean miles to get here from other islands more than 1500 years ago. When the Dutch landed on the island on Easter Sunday in 1722 it became known as Easter Island."
This was the way I introduced my sixth grade art class to a lesson about Easter Island. Throughout the year in art we had been globe trotting to discover ancient cultural expressions of art. Not only did I want to give my students a sense of the statues that are found on the island, I ...
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