The torsos are heavy, and, sometimes, the clavicles are subtly outlined in stone. The jaw lines stand out against the truncated neck. Like the nose, the ears are elongated and oblong in form. The over-large heads (a three-to-five ratio between the head and the trunk, a sculptural trait consistent with the Polynesian belief in the sanctity of the chiefly head) have heavy brows and elongated noses with a distinctive fish-hook-shaped curl of the nostrils. The human figures would be outlined in the rock wall first, then chipped away until only the image was left. Moai are carved from volcanic tuff (solidified ash). The moai are monolithic statues, and their minimalist style reflects forms found throughout Polynesia. Statues are still being discovered as of 2023.
One unfinished sculpture, if completed, would be approximately 21 m (69 ft) tall, with a weight of about 145–165 tonnes (143–162 long tons 160–182 short tons). The heaviest moai erected was a shorter but squatter moai at Ahu Tongariki, weighing 86 tonnes (85 long tons 95 short tons). The tallest moai erected, called Paro, was almost 10 metres (33 ft) high and weighed 82 tonnes (81 long tons 90 short tons). The production and transportation of the more than 900 statues is considered a remarkable creative and physical feat. The moai were toppled in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, possibly as a result of European contact or internecine tribal wars. The statues still gazed inland across their clan lands when Europeans first visited the island in 1722, but all of them had fallen by the latter part of the 19th century. The moai are chiefly the living faces ( aringa ora) of deified ancestors ( aringa ora ata tepuna). Almost all moai have overly large heads, which comprise three-eighths the size of the whole statue and they have no legs. Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the island's perimeter. aɪ/ ( listen) MOH-eye Spanish: moái Rapa Nui: moʻai, lit.'statue') are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in eastern Polynesia between the years 12.
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