Ana Eva Hei
Ana Eva Hei | |
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 Ana Eva Hei, profile view by Walter Knoche, 1911[note 1] | |
| Born | c.1849 Rapa Nui |
| Died | c.1949 Rapa Nui |
| Known for | Queen of Rapa Nui One of the last tattooed people of Rapa Nui |
| Spouse | Atamu Tekena |
Ana Eva Hei, also Uka ʻa Hei ʻa ʻArero, or Reina Eva (Queen Eva) (c.1849 - c.1949[1]) was the consort of the penultimate ruler of Rapa Nui, Atamu Tekena, and was one of the last Rapa Nui people to have been tattooed using traditional practices.
Tattoos
[edit]Along with Viriamo, Ana Eva Hei was one of the last surviving women from Easter Island to receive traditional facial tattoos.[2] Her tattoos were described by Alfred Métraux, who undertook a research expedition to her home from 1934 to 1935. He stated that her tattoos included: "two parallel stripes crossing her forehead from one ear to the other and the inner edge of the ear tattooed ... The design on her lower jaw is composed of a triangular figure which meets an oval design, together forming an open angle. Her hands are covered with thin blue lines reminiscent of mittens."[3]
The singer and community leader, Luis Pate Paoa,[4] remembered meeting her when he was a child, recalling that she danced and sang a song about cannibalism.[1]
Historiography
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Drawings that have been reported to depict Ana Eva Hei were made by Walter Knoche in 1911. However according to researchers Cristián Moreno Pakarati and Rafal Wieczorek, Knoche did not label the images, and so they have proposed some doubt over whether she is actually the woman depicted.[5] However, Adrienne Kaeppler believed there is significant circumstantial evidence that the subject in Knoche's illustrations is her. This includes evidence where she appears in other's works, for example a woman called Uaritaï, with the same tattoos as Ana Eva Hei, is recorded by Julien Viaud in his writings.[1]
Personal life
[edit]Married to king Atamu Tekena,[6] records of the number of their children differ: according to Adrienne Kaeppler they had fourteen children;[1] but according to Cristián Moreno Pakarati they had six.[7]
Notes
[edit]- ^ A photograph of Ana Eva Hei can be found in: Kaeppler, Adrienne L. (2018). The iconic tattooed man of easter island: an illustrated life. Santa Monica, CA: EISP Foundation Mana Press, p.34.
References
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- ^ a b c d Kaeppler, Adrienne L. (2018). The iconic tattooed man of easter island: an illustrated life (PDF). Santa Monica, CA: EISP Foundation Mana Press. pp. 37, 51. ISBN 978-1-7324952-0-3.
- ^ Krutak, Lars F. (2007). The Tattooing Arts of Tribal Women. Bennett & Bloom/Desert Hearts. pp. 117–119. ISBN 978-1-898948-75-9.
- ^ Métraux, Alfred (1971). Ethnology of Easter Island. Internet Archive. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press. pp. 238–239. ISBN 978-0-910240-12-3.
- ^ "Obituary: LUIS PATE PAOA ("PAPA KIKO")". Rapa Nui Journal. 23 (1): 65–66. May 2009.
- ^ Moreno Pakarati, Cristián; Wieczorek, Rafał (2020). "Identifying Places and People in Walter Lehmann's Photograph Collection of Rapa Nui (Easter Island, 1911)". Rapa Nui Journal. 33 (1–2): 44–83. doi:10.1353/rnj.2020.0003. ISSN 2576-5469.
- ^ Delsing, Riet (2015-05-31). Articulating Rapa Nui: Polynesian Cultural Politics in a Latin American Nation-State. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-5461-4.
- ^ Pakarati, Cristián Moreno. "Los últimos' Ariki Mau y la evolución del poder político en Rapa Nui." (2010).
Further reading
[edit]- Delsing, Riet, 'Performing Culture', Articulating Rapa Nui: Polynesian Cultural Politics in a Latin American Nation-State (Honolulu, HI, 2015) https://doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824851682.003.0006