Rapa Nui Journal Volume 9 Issue 2

The latest 30-minute TV documentary on Easter Island, screened in the USA and Britain, forms part of a series entitled Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe made by Granite Productions of London, and is one of the best of its kind.

Geiseler's Easter Island Report: An 1880s Anthropological Account. Introduction, annotations and notes by William S. Ayres; translated by William S. Ayres and Gabriella S. Ayres. Asian and Pacific Archaeology Series 12. University of Hawai'i Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8248-1555-6; 207 pages, paper cover.

Review by Georgia Lee

Easter Island. The Heritage and its Conservation. A. Elena Charola. 1994. World Monuments Fund, New York. 68 pages. Soft cover, line drawings, maps, black and white photographs and 72 color photographs.

Review by Paul G. Bahn

Catherine et Michel Orliac. Bois Sculptes de L 'ile de Paques. Collection Arts Temoins. Editions Parentheses/ Editions Louise Leiris.1995. 72, cours Julien, 13006 Marseille, France. In French. Soft cover, 92 pages. Size 6Y2 x 91;2. Maps, drawings, and 59 color photos. ISSN 11240-098X; ISBN 2-86364-505-6.

Review by Joan T. Seaver Kurze

Easter Island, Map #308. Published by ITMB Publishing and World Wide Books and Maps. ISBN 0 921463 308. First Edition 1993-1995. $6.95. Cartography by David Sami, Suzanne Bald and Chandra Ali.

Review by Georgia Lee

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International News

Glidden's paper (this volume) describes six sites in the same general area in which Pu 'uloa is located in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. Thus this appears to he an appropriate place to include a report of field work conducted in May 1995. Pu'uloa is the largest single petroglyph site in Hawai'i: over 21,000 petroglyphs have been documented. An ancient trail runs through the site and petroglyphs also cluster along this feature. This paper describes the results of recent field work and compares Pu 'uloa to other sites in Hawai'i, leading us to conclude that petroglyph designs relate to the function of the individual site. Please refer to map on page 40 for site locations.

This paper details the results of the 1989 and 1990 archaeological surveys in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park in which over 700 petroglyphs were mapped and recorded for the first time. The geographic location of the petroglyphs was found to be along or on both currently defined ahupua 'a boundaries (traditional Hawaiian land boundaries). This paper explores the significance of this finding and the importance of the god Lono in the arid region of the coastal Puna district where worship of this god of fertility and rain may have been linked to the piko ritual which was performed at sites within the Park.