Group items tagged

Etruscan bronze statue of the Chimera of Arezzo, with explanatory text on the statue and myth. If you click on "digital images of the Chimaera" you'll go to another page with a lot of detail images of the statue.

Hoa Hakananai'a means "stolen or hidden friend" in the indigenous language of Rapa Nui. Hoa Hakananai'a is rare in that it is carved from basalt. The hardness of the basalt has maintained a lot of the decorative detail that has been lost from many of the other statues on Rapa Nui.