2023
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Josefina Arriagada et al., « Una mirada fugaz al uso de máscaras en Rapa Nui, 1914 », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, ID : 10.7764/Aisth.74.15
This research is presented as a contribution to the cultural studies of Rapa Nui from a case analysis: the series of photographs of 1914 that document a multitudinous event in Rapa Nui, where several people appear disguised with canvas masks. Complementing diverse sources and methods–such as photographs, drawings, visual analysis, bibliography, and interviews–this article seeks to clarify the context and possible meanings of what we have called a puzzle-scene, that is, a scene from which we seek to reconstruct a public image by searching for fragments in different sources of information. In this work of unmasking, we characterize this event as a festival of national character, which included elements of the contemporary cultural repertoire of the Rapa Nui people.