Rapa Nui/Easter Island, Chile – 27°04'22.00"S 109°20'54.00"W
The Moai Head Pendant
€333,00
Silent Guardians. Distant Watchers.
The Moai represent the silent guardians and powerful protectors. Facing inland with the ocean at their backs, they care for their families — not the rest of the world. Calm, stoic, unmoved by what ended their civilization, they smirk at whatever life throws at them.
Thousands of miles from any other civilization, they are a reminder of self-resilience and that a community working together needs no help.
Thousands of miles from any other civilization, they are a reminder of self-resilience and that a community working together needs no help.
Handcast in Mexico City · Ships worldwide
Specifications
Title
The Moai Head Pendant - Oxidized Silver with Ruby
Material
Sterling Silver .925
Finish
Oxidized Silver
Stones
Ruby - Natural, 2mm
Weight
33 g
Dimensions (HxWxD)
3 x 1 x 1 cm
Origin
Rapa Nui/Easter Island, Chile – 27°04'22.00"S 109°20'54.00"W
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The record
887 statues. Nobody agrees on how. Nobody agrees on why.
Easter Island sits 2,300 miles from the nearest landmass — one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth. Sometime between 1250 and 1500 AD, the Rapa Nui people quarried, carved, and transported 887 monolithic statues, some weighing over 80 tonnes, across volcanic terrain. Without wheels. Without cranes. Without any technology mainstream archaeology is comfortable explaining.
The statues face inland, not out to sea. Each one seems to represent a deified ancestor — a chief, a lineage, a memory made permanent in stone. The largest stands nearly 10 meters tall. The heaviest exceeds 80 tonnes. The island's population collapsed. The statues stopped being built. The knowledge of how they were made and moved may have died with the people who made them.
What remains are the megaliths themselves. Still standing. Still watching. Still unexplained.
This piece is cast from an original sculptural interpretation of the Moai head form, finished by hand in Mexico City. The black oxidized patina replicates the weathered volcanic stone. The ruby on the chest is our addition — a single point of color in an otherwise monolithic object. Make of that what you will.
The statues face inland, not out to sea. Each one seems to represent a deified ancestor — a chief, a lineage, a memory made permanent in stone. The largest stands nearly 10 meters tall. The heaviest exceeds 80 tonnes. The island's population collapsed. The statues stopped being built. The knowledge of how they were made and moved may have died with the people who made them.
What remains are the megaliths themselves. Still standing. Still watching. Still unexplained.
This piece is cast from an original sculptural interpretation of the Moai head form, finished by hand in Mexico City. The black oxidized patina replicates the weathered volcanic stone. The ruby on the chest is our addition — a single point of color in an otherwise monolithic object. Make of that what you will.
Craft
Cast and hand-finished in Mexico City. 3D modelled from archaeological reference, printed, moulded, cast in wax, perfected by hand, then cast in solid precious metal. No two pieces are identical.