Welcome to the Easter Island Foundation’s website! What’s new?
2012 EIF scholarships have been awarded; please visit our Scholarships page for details about the awards!
Join the Easter Island Foundation, scholars, researchers, students and others interested in Easter Island and the Pacific in Santa Rosa, CA in July 2012 for the 8th International Conference on Easter Island & the Pacific, Living in Changing Island Environments. A preliminary list of papers is available; please click on the EIPC Conference registration link below and scroll down to the list of sessions and papers:
Rapa Nui Journal Volume 26 No. 1 (May 2012) will be mailed out soon! This is a great issue, with papers by Georgia Lee & Paul Horley (Easter Island’s Birdman Stones in the Collections of the Peabody Museum); Zuzanna Jakubowska (Behrans’ Narrative of the Discovery of Easter Island); Ian Barber (A Fast Yam to Polynesia: New Thinking on the Problem of the American Sweet Potato); Miguel Fuentes (Strikes, Insubordination, Theft and Disobedience between the Rebellion of Angata and Rapanui Struggles for Rights); Albert Davletshin (An Overlooked Image on the Hoa Hakanana’ia Stone Statue from Easter Island); and Jo Anne Van Tilburg & Cristian Arevalo Pakarati (Hoa Hakanana’ia in Detail), plus news, book reviews and other items of interest. To subscribe, please visit our Membership page.
Several rare, hard-to-find and out-of-print books have been recently donated to the EIF; please visit our Publications page and scroll down for a complete listing.
The Easter Island Foundation was founded in 1989 with the mission of building a library on Easter Island and promoting awareness of the island’s fragile heritage. This 501(c)(3) organization has partnered with the Rapanui people and other groups to achieve the following goals:
- establish the William Mulloy Library at the Museo Antropológico P. Sebastián Englert Museum on Easter Island
- provide scholarships for Rapanui students who wish to continue their education
- provide grants for research and environmental projects on Easter Island
- provide books and materials for the Indigenous Guides Association on the island
- provide books and supplies for the island schools
- sponsor International symposia about Easter Island and Polynesia
- publish books about Easter Island and Polynesia as well as the Rapa Nui Journal
We invite you to join with us to help preserve this special island in the center of the world.
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