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Rapa Nui (Easter Island) anthropomorphic wooden sculptures which represented guardian spirits and demons, as well as animals and people.  According to island legend, a chief once saw these spirits and reproduced them in wood, thereby capturing their power.
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Rapa Nui (Easter Island) anthropomorphic wooden sculptures which represented guardian spirits and demons, as well as animals and people. According to island legend, a chief once saw these spirits and reproduced them in wood, thereby capturing their power.

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