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I think the fact that they're referred to as Easter Island heads, rather than statues might have had something to do with it :)

More seriously, the iconic pictures of the heads are from Rano Raraku (IIRC), and that is just heads and a bit of neck sticking out of the ground, isn't it?

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According to Google Image Seach :) more than a half has body, and some have a hat http://www.google.com.ar/search?hl=en&q=moai&gs_sm=e...

(IIRC, all most of them had had a hut, but in most of them the hat had fallen an been lost.)

Well, I believe this particular head is the one I've seen most commonly in books[1], and that was quite a long time ago (I wish I could remember if the original Aku-Aku book had pictures.)

[1] http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Moai_Heads.png

Well IIRC most moai were placed at the shore or on the cliffs, and the hats were generally rounded. So giant wheel + hill + ocean is definitely going to end with the majority of the hats being lost.

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