El mundo submarino de Isla de Pascua / The Underwater World of Easter Island 
by Michel Garda, 2000 S.E.E.M. Orca Ltda, Chile
Review by Georgia Lee</p

Lee, Georgia

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Volcanoes. El Niiios, and the Bellybuttonof the UniverseD.A Walker, 2000 Xlibris Corporation, Soft cover, 99 pages,$20.00, ISBN 07388-37229Review by Tom ChristopherThis little volume traces the career of D.A. Walker from agraduate student of geophysics at the University of Hawai'iover, under, and around the Pacific for the next thirty- ix yearson the way to some startling discoveries for Rapanuiphiles.Having amassed some 20 years of seismographic and hy-drophonic data from around the Pacific, Walker, with a crossdisciplinary approach, began to see a relationship between theEl Nino phenomenon and volcanism on the sea floor near EasterI land. EI Ninos were preceded by increased sea floor volcan-ism. These correlations were present in the past two El Ninoevents.On page 64, Walker reflects back on his first visit toEa ter I land when Antonio Haoa had told him that the island'sname was Te Pito te Henua:Furthermore, if any place on the face of the earLh could becalled "The Earth's Bellybutton", the plate tectonics revo-lution had now proven that it was near Easter Island. Theridge ystem there was found to be the most rapidly spread-ing on earth. It was so fast that in some places it couldn'tkeep up with itself, and small mini-plates were forming. In1992 and 1993, hundreds of volcanoes were found alongthi ridge system. Also, many hundreds of thousands ofyears earlier, Easter had been right on the axis of this mostrapidly spreading ridge center. Easter itself was formed bythe energy (lava) traveling through umbilical columns ofconduit from its Mother (the mantle), which gives birth toall of the earth's crust. Easter island is now merely a rem-nant of that birthing process (i.e., a bellybutton).I found this to be a nice little read, written for the layper-son who will have particular interest to linking EI Nifios and theclimate changes associated with them to both the discovery ofEaster Island and changes to the society due to drought and thesubsequent food shortages.El mundo submarino de Isla de PascualThe Underwater World ofEaster IslandMichel Garda, 2000 S.E.E.M. Orca Ltda, ChileReview by Georgia LeeFull color, 28 pages, text in English and Spanish. This slimbook provides a stunning view of the underwater world ofEaster Island, a view denied to non-scuba divers. Garda arrivedto Easter Island in 1979 and, together with his brother Henri,now heads the Orca Center for Scuba Diving. Michel is knownfor his excellent underwater photographs and has worked withscientific expeditions and documentaries. Aside from the under-water "vistas", there are close-ups showing fish and other seacreatures to be found around the island, views of shipwreckssuch as the Apolline Emilie which went down in 1896, and anevocative shot of an encrusted anchor from some unnamed ves-Rapa Nui Journal 60sel that met its fate here. The cover illustration is a real"grabber". It shows a moai under the sea, covered with coralgrowths, and a faint figure of a diver swimming past. But all isnot as it appears: this "underwater scene" was actually from aChilean soap opera of 1998, "Iorana". Price of book not given;interested parties may contact: seemorca@entelchile.netSplendid Isolation: Art ofEaster IslandThe Metropolitan Mu eum of Art, December 11, 2001 - August4, 2002, Eric Kjellgren, Evelyn A J. Hall and John A FriedeAssistant Curator of Oceanic Art. Catalogue published by YaleUniversity Press, New Haven and New LondonExhibition Review by Nomwn HurstSplendid Isolation pre ent Ea ter I land objects fromNorth American public and private collection. The in tallationoccupies the Special Exhibition Gallerie for the Department ofthe Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas (AO.A) fromDecember II, 2001 to Augu t4, 2002.In an exhibition of scant 50 object, Kjellgren has man-aged to include at least two example of every familiar type ofwood carving as well as an intere ting variety of tone culp-ture, pendants, gorgets and other body ornament. There are fivebarkcloth objects, three feather headdre se , three dance pad-dies, a group of weapons (including one paoa and two ua), andfinally three rongorongo board. Given the paucity of EasterIsland material world-wide, the viewer hould find thi a well-balanced and representative exhibition. It include importantand well known, as well as newly "re-di covered" piece.Although the Special Exhibition Galleries for A.O.A.have been the locus of many intere Ling exhibitions, few havebeen as ambitious as the present example, and almost no othershave been accompanied by a cholarly and serviceable cata-logue. The catalogue includes a surprisingly po itive letter fromdirector de Montebello, not known for hi enthu ia m for"primitive" art, and articles by Adrienne L. Kaeppler, Jo AnneVan Tilburg and associate curator Eric Kjellgren, who alsowrote the catalogue entries.Kjellgren has attempted what every good curator shouldin trying to locate and exhibit noteworthy objects that have sel-dom, if ever, been previously published or exhibited. There area number of the e from institutional collections that will be neweven to mo t Easter Island aficionados. Notable among theseare two barkcloth figures from the New Brunswick Mu eum inSt. John, Canada, and a birdman figure from the SpringfieldMu eum of Science in Massachusett .There are also many privately held object, some of whichwill be fresh to viewer. Among the private collections repre-ented, Mark and Carolyn Blackburn have lent nine object.There are al 0 two objects from the collection of Arman andCorice Arman, two from the Helois Trust collection (courtesyof France co Pellizzi), one each from the collection of Faith-dorian Wright and the current collection of Raymond and LauraWielgus, as well a several from anonymous lenders.Visitor will recognize a reasonable number of objectthat have been widely published and exhibited. The Metropoli-tan Mu eum itself has Easter Island piece in its collection. FiveVol. 16 (1) May 2002It<:t\fcaItCnIitt1Lee: El mundo submarino de Isla de Pascua / The Underwater world of Easter Island (Review)Published by Kahualike, 2002

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