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Rapa Nui Journal 5#3, Autumn 1991 Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation Volume 5 Article 1 Issue 3 Rapa Nui Journal 5#3, Autumn 1991 1991 Rapa Nui Journal 5#3, Autumn 1991 Follow this and additional works at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj Part of the History of the Pacific slI ands Commons, and the Pacific slI ands Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation (1991) "Rapa Nui Journal 5#3, Autumn 1991," Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation: Vol. 5 : Iss. 3 , Article 1. Available at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj/vol5/iss3/1 This Research Report is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Hawai`i Press at Kahualike. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation by an authorized editor of Kahualike. For more information, please contact [email protected]. et al.: Rapa Nui Journal 5#3, Autumn 1991 [ Vo15,No3 Autumn 1991 seven until about midnight. Each time when the waves went The Destruction of Tongariki out they went out much farther than the real low tide level, so that all the area between the normal shoreline and the Emily Ross Mulloy previously mentioned offshore rocks, was practically drained of water. While our family was on Rapanui in 1960, we experienced the "I think that by eight or nine o'clock, the entire pueblo was result of an earthquake in southern Chile. The effects on the down here by the waterfront, and of course we were, too. island came in the form of a maremoto or tsunam~ what is People brought torches of rags dipped in gasoline, primus popularly but inco"ectly known as a "tidal wave." The account lamps, carbide lamps, flashlights, etc., and in the intervals which follows is from a letter sent to our families in the United when the sea went down they were scrambling around on the States on one of the few occasions that mail could be sent: by exposed rocks, catching the stranded fish, lobsters, crabs, the Chilean Navy training ship, Esmeralda, upon Us return to octopus, etc., and a lot of people, including Martin Rapu's the islnd from Tahiti The letter if dated 15 June 1960, although father [Alejo Rapu), stayed down here all night There is it had been written over a period ofseveral weeks. evidentally a sort of superstitious belief that they have to stay "The most exciting event of there and pray or chant in the past month was the tidal order to prevent the sea from wave on May 22, following the coming up higher. It is earthquake which took place something that has happened in Chile. I imagine you have before. In fact, we were told had more information about that several years ago the those than we have, since our water came up and covered news sources are pretty the soccer field and got almost limited. to the old cemetery (which is "On Sunday night we were just a few feet lower than the just getting ready to have level of this house) but, in supper when some kids some of the results, which we outside started hollering for didn't find out until later, this us to come out and look at the A view of the ruins of Tongariki as it looks today. Gigantic was much more disastrous. beach. [We were living in a statues lie where they were tossed by the tsunami. "No one here was drowned, rented house across the street and no one's home was from the present post office, then as now the home of washed away, but on the other side of the island, perhaps Nicholas Haoa and Rosita Cardinali, owners of the Hotel because it was the side facing the continent and got the first Otai.) When we first looked, the rocks a little way from shock of the wave, a great deal of damage was done. The shore, which normally stand several meters above the high first result that anyone knew about, except of course for the tide line, had completely disappeared. The stone pier was big supply of fish, was next morning when it became covered with water, and the water was level with the base of apparent that the sea had brought in a lot of sand to the the statue which is set up at the end of the street we live on. beach down here, sucked it up from deeper parts and By the time we had collected everyone in the family and deposited it on top of and among the rocks. This was a big gone down to see, the water had all gone out again, and lots piece of luck for the island government and also for all the of little kids and big people too were poking around in the private individuals who are planning construction, since you pools to find fish, etc., which had been washed up. Then in need sand for cement and before it had to be hauled in from about 15 minutes it rose again, everyone ran for high ground the other side of the island in oxcarts or, in the case of the and, though it never again got as high as the first wave, it government, in jeeps with trailers. So for almost all the continued sucking out and coming in all that evening from following week, all the able bodied men, women and children were down shovelling sand, piling it up to dry and Vol 5, No 3 • Page 33 Published by Kahualike, 1991 1 Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation, Vol. 5 [1991], Iss. 3, Art. 1 then loading it in oxcarts or trailers to be hauled to the sheep, rotten fish, lobsters, eels, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, various places where it was needed. Martin [Rapu] is octopus, and lots of dried seaweed. It really was an building a new house and was able to get all the sand he indescribable mess. By the time we got there more than a needed for his cement work and spent a lot of time down week after, it was easy to see the area which the sea water there as he was also collecting sand for the Air Force and had covered as it killed the grass and other plants and they then, when off duty, was collecting for himself. had turned yellow over the whole area. Of a couple of caves "Thursday of that week was a holiday, some sort of religious along the shore, one had been completely filled with rocks so day, I'm not sure which, and as it turned out to be a really that, if Martin hadn't told us, we wouldn't have known it was beautiful day as well, we spent most of it at the beach. We a cave; while the other, a little higher, had simply been filled also had a lot of company, among them Guillermo Nahoe's with seaweed and dead fish. parents [Juan and Josefina Pare], and it was from his father "The object of the trip was to take back to town some of that we got the details of what had happened on the other the skulls and other bones that had been washed out of the side of the island. There, in the bay of Hotu !ti, which is on tombs as well as to bring back various smaller carved stones the coast behind the volcanoes Rano Raraku and Poike, the that had turned up. Presumably, these were things that had sea had risen 13 meters above its normal level and covered a been built into the walls of the big ahu, as they are of a more very large area, going in some spots as much as 700 meters archaic style. Since they are small enough to be portable, it inland, and completely destroying the largest (and previously was thought best to bring them back to the government one of the best preserved) ahu on the island, Tongariki. headquarters building and keep them here until the planned While it did not have the beautiful Inca-like stone work of museum is built They would be too tempting for Vinapu, it did have 15 moai, all in very good condition unscrupulous people to haul off to sell to tourists. When I although tipped over, and a high masonry platform of at least say small, I don't mean you could put them in your pocket; seven courses of stone. The sheepherders unfortunately the largest was, I suppose, about 4 feet tall, and the smallest didn't get over to this part of the island until Tuesday or was a head about 18 inches diameter, so it was an all-day job Wednesday so hundreds of lobsters and thousands of fish packing and loading them and required two trips with the which were washed up at this and other points along the east jeep and trailer to haul all the stuff. We stayed over there coast were completely wasted. while the jeep went back with one load and took some "On the Monday following, Kathy [my daughter] and I went pictures although it was a very overcast day and so I didn't try over to Hotu lti with Gonzalo Figueroa in a jeep borrowed to go up to the side of Rano Raraku and take more pictures from the Air Force and a bunch of airforce men, including of that much photographed spot (although I'm sure sooner or Martin, Arsenio Rapu, and Juan and Jorge Edmunds, and later we will have to have our pictures taken alongside a had a chance to see the destruction at first hand.
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