Fig. 1
Engraving of Pierre Loti’s sketch made in Paris in 1872 (Loti 1872, 1025: 72).
Fig. 2
Engraving of Pierre Loti’s sketch made in Paris in 1872 (Loti 1872, 1026: 180).
Fig. 3
The Thinker: the island chief among the skulls in the bottom of the drawing of the destruction of the Moais: Loti ponders, Renaissance-style, on the fleetingness of life. (Photographic Collection: Centre for Urban Archaeology)