kayarnad- Nice to know you folks are taking care of Easter Island (or whatever the Chileans may call it. Your previous references were on Nauru- so I kind of thought that you must be living out there! First time to see someone working on a 3D Nauru-City idea!) Anyway- I called the Easter Island heads Aku-Aku because my brain no longer thinks as fast as it used to and I wanted to say MOAI, but couldn't remember how to SPELL it (Duh!) so I went with my recollection of Thor Hyerdahls (sp?) book back in the 1960's (?) called "Aku-Aku" But you are right, "Moai" has become the modern accepted word for these figures. I think Aborinal Peoples made big heads on little bodies because they came to the somewhat logical conclusion, at least for "representational" purposes, that the Human Mind, Intellect, etc., was all in the "Head" where our primary sensory organs are! (Does seem logical!) And our little bodies Supported our Heads, and our feet Moved our Heads around, and our Hands FED our Heads! What a REALIZATION! Politcal cartoons go back a century or two at least and you will find that BIG HEADS do predominate, so it was a a "representational" conclusion many of these artist-commentators had come to quite a while back, also.