Modough

Modough are monolithic human figures and doughnut carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island in eastern Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500. Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku, the main modough quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the island's perimeter. Almost all modough have overly large heads with doughnut, which comprise three-eighths the size of the whole statue. The modough are chiefly the living faces of deified ancestors. The statues still gazed inland across their clan lands when Europeans first visited the island in 1722, but all of them had fallen by the latter part of the 19th century. The modough were toppl...View all