|
| A VIEW of MONUMENTS & c in EASTER ISLAND 1774 |
£68 |
|
One of the earliest images of Easter Island produced from an painting by William Hodges, on Captain Cooks 1774 expedition. The Skeletal remains in the foreground suggest that the violent breakdown of the island's culture and the later toppling of the moai had begun. The population considered that the Island was "their" world, and that, with a combination of rising population, pollution of the environment, and ever decreasing natural resources, they still cut the last tree down, and eat the last Tern egg, resulting in the predicted devastating population crush....a model for "Earth Island" |
|
|
| |
|
|
Website By: Red Dragon I.T. Ltd