The wood carvings

The wood carvings with figurative forms are very common in the polynesia. every island have is own traditional figure: the moai pa’a pa’a in Easter Island (Rapa Nui), the tiki in the Marquesas ( Fenua Enata), lono in Hawai’i , etc. All of them have got the same structure where the hand position, eyes and mouth have a critical importance in the expression and the meaning of the figure. Most of the times, the carving represents a mythological being with a zoomorphic form, but in other cases the figure only represents a human being .