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Easter Island

work by Metraux

Also known as: “L’Île de Pâques”

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In Alfred Métraux
…and L’Île de Pâques (1935; Easter Island), he argued that Easter Island’s indigenous population is Polynesian, both culturally and physically, and that the island’s well-known monolithic sculptures are native creations rather than Asian or American Indian ones.
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