{"id":713,"date":"2026-07-12T05:18:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T05:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artworkpost.com\/moai\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T14:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:53:09","slug":"moai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artworkpost.com\/fr\/moai\/","title":{"rendered":"Moai \u2013 Les g\u00e9ants de l&rsquo;\u00eele de P\u00e2ques ont \u00ab march\u00e9 \u00bb (et l&rsquo;un d&rsquo;eux est \u00e0 Paris)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\"><strong>Les habitants de Rapa Nui l&rsquo;ont toujours racont\u00e9 : les moai ont march\u00e9 jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 leurs plateformes. Longtemps, on a pris cette tradition pour une l\u00e9gende. En 2025, deux arch\u00e9ologues ont publi\u00e9 la synth\u00e8se de plus de dix ans de recherches : en \u00e9tudiant pr\u00e8s d&rsquo;un millier de statues et en faisant \u00ab marcher \u00bb une r\u00e9plique de plus de quatre tonnes, ils ont montr\u00e9 que de petits groupes pouvaient les d\u00e9placer debout, \u00e0 l&rsquo;aide de cordes, en les faisant osciller de gauche \u00e0 droite. Et pour voir un moai sans traverser le Pacifique, il suffit d&rsquo;aller \u00e0 Paris : une t\u00eate monumentale, rapport\u00e9e en 1872 par une fr\u00e9gate fran\u00e7aise, accueille les visiteurs du mus\u00e9e du quai Branly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>En bref<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Auteurs :<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/artworkpost.com\/fr\/artist\/unknown\/\">sculpteurs anonymes du peuple rapanui<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Date :<\/strong> principalement entre le XIII<sup>e<\/sup> et le XVI<sup>e<\/sup> si\u00e8cle<\/li>\n<li><strong>Technique :<\/strong> tuf volcanique du volcan Rano Raraku pour la plupart ; coiffes (<em>pukao<\/em>) en scorie rouge<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nombre :<\/strong> pr\u00e8s d&rsquo;un millier de statues recens\u00e9es<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dimensions :<\/strong> de moins de deux m\u00e8tres \u00e0 pr\u00e8s de dix m\u00e8tres pour les plus grandes dress\u00e9es<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mouvement :<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/artworkpost.com\/fr\/movement\/rapa-nui-art\/\">Art rapanui<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lieu :<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/artworkpost.com\/fr\/museum\/easter-island-chile\/\">\u00eele de P\u00e2ques (Rapa Nui), Chili<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Des anc\u00eatres de pierre<\/h2>\n<p>Rapa Nui, l&rsquo;\u00eele de P\u00e2ques, est l&rsquo;une des terres habit\u00e9es les plus isol\u00e9es du monde, au milieu du Pacifique Sud, \u00e0 plus de 3 500 kilom\u00e8tres des c\u00f4tes du Chili. Des navigateurs polyn\u00e9siens l&rsquo;ont peupl\u00e9e il y a environ huit si\u00e8cles. Leurs descendants ont sculpt\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d&rsquo;un millier de statues monumentales, les moai.<\/p>\n<p>Les moai ne repr\u00e9sentent pas des dieux abstraits, mais des anc\u00eatres importants, chefs ou personnages divinis\u00e9s. Dress\u00e9s sur de grandes plateformes de pierre, les <em>ahu<\/em>, ils tournent presque tous le dos \u00e0 la mer et regardent vers l&rsquo;int\u00e9rieur de l&rsquo;\u00eele, vers les villages : les anc\u00eatres veillent sur les vivants et leur transmettent leur force, le <em>mana<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>Comment les moai ont-ils voyag\u00e9 ?<\/h2>\n<p>Presque tous les moai ont \u00e9t\u00e9 taill\u00e9s dans les flancs d&rsquo;un m\u00eame volcan, le Rano Raraku. Il fallait ensuite les transporter, parfois sur plusieurs kilom\u00e8tres, jusqu&rsquo;aux plateformes r\u00e9parties le long des c\u00f4tes. Pendant des si\u00e8cles, on a imagin\u00e9 des tra\u00eeneaux, des rondins, des centaines de bras \u2013 et m\u00eame des extraterrestres.<\/p>\n<p>Les Rapanui, eux, ont toujours dit que les statues avaient \u00ab march\u00e9 \u00bb. En 2025, les arch\u00e9ologues Carl Lipo et Terry Hunt ont publi\u00e9 une \u00e9tude qui leur donne raison. Ils ont analys\u00e9 962 moai, dont 62 statues abandonn\u00e9es le long des anciennes routes de l&rsquo;\u00eele. Ces \u00ab moai des routes \u00bb ont des caract\u00e9ristiques particuli\u00e8res : une base large en forme de D et une inclinaison vers l&rsquo;avant, qui permettent de les faire basculer d&rsquo;un c\u00f4t\u00e9 puis de l&rsquo;autre. Avec une r\u00e9plique de plus de quatre tonnes, quelques \u00e9quipes tirant sur des cordes ont r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 la faire avancer en zigzag, comme si elle marchait. Les routes elles-m\u00eames, larges d&rsquo;environ quatre m\u00e8tres et demi et l\u00e9g\u00e8rement creus\u00e9es en leur centre, semblent avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 con\u00e7ues pour ce mouvement.<\/p>\n<p>La d\u00e9couverte change l&rsquo;image des Rapanui : non plus un peuple qui aurait \u00e9puis\u00e9 son \u00eele pour d\u00e9placer des statues g\u00e9antes, mais des ing\u00e9nieurs ing\u00e9nieux, qui ont trouv\u00e9 une m\u00e9thode \u00e9conome en hommes et en ressources.<\/p>\n<h2>La fin du mythe de \u00ab l&rsquo;\u00e9cocide \u00bb<\/h2>\n<p>On a longtemps racont\u00e9 que les habitants de l&rsquo;\u00eele avaient abattu tous leurs arbres pour transporter les moai, provoquant famine, guerres et effondrement de leur soci\u00e9t\u00e9. Ce r\u00e9cit, popularis\u00e9 au d\u00e9but des ann\u00e9es 2000, est aujourd&rsquo;hui fortement remis en question. Les recherches arch\u00e9ologiques et g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques r\u00e9centes sugg\u00e8rent que la population ne s&rsquo;est pas effondr\u00e9e avant l&rsquo;arriv\u00e9e des Europ\u00e9ens, et que le grand d\u00e9clin d\u00e9mographique est surtout d\u00fb aux maladies apport\u00e9es par les visiteurs et aux raids esclavagistes du XIX<sup>e<\/sup> si\u00e8cle. Les \u00e9tudes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques indiquent aussi que les Rapanui ont eu des contacts avec des populations d&rsquo;Am\u00e9rique du Sud, bien avant les Europ\u00e9ens.<\/p>\n<h2>Symbolisme et d\u00e9tails \u00e0 observer<\/h2>\n<p><strong>La t\u00eate.<\/strong> Elle est tr\u00e8s grande par rapport au corps : c&rsquo;est l\u00e0 que se concentre la force sacr\u00e9e de l&rsquo;anc\u00eatre.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Le visage.<\/strong> Front lourd, nez allong\u00e9, menton saillant, l\u00e8vres serr\u00e9es : les traits sont stylis\u00e9s, presque identiques d&rsquo;une statue \u00e0 l&rsquo;autre, mais chaque moai repr\u00e9sentait un anc\u00eatre particulier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Les yeux.<\/strong> Certains moai recevaient, une fois dress\u00e9s sur leur plateforme, des yeux en corail blanc et en pierre rouge ou noire. Ces yeux \u00ab ouvraient \u00bb la statue et lui donnaient vie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Le corps.<\/strong> Les moai sont sans jambes ; leurs bras sont coll\u00e9s au corps, les longues mains pos\u00e9es sur le ventre. Certains, en partie enterr\u00e9s au pied du Rano Raraku, ont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 lors de fouilles des corps entiers, parfois grav\u00e9s de motifs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Le pukao.<\/strong> Sur certaines statues, un grand cylindre de scorie rouge, extrait d&rsquo;une autre carri\u00e8re, est pos\u00e9 sur la t\u00eate comme une coiffe ou un chignon.<\/p>\n<h2>H\u00e9ritage et menaces<\/h2>\n<p>Les moai sont devenus l&rsquo;un des symboles les plus reconnus de l&rsquo;humanit\u00e9, comme le <a href=\"https:\/\/artworkpost.com\/fr\/grand-sphinx-de-gizeh\/\">Grand Sphinx de Gizeh<\/a> ou la <a href=\"https:\/\/artworkpost.com\/fr\/statue-de-la-liberte\/\">statue de la Libert\u00e9<\/a>. Le parc national de Rapa Nui est inscrit au patrimoine mondial de l&rsquo;UNESCO depuis 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Ils restent pourtant fragiles. En octobre 2022, un incendie a ravag\u00e9 une partie du site du Rano Raraku et endommag\u00e9 plusieurs statues. Par ailleurs, plusieurs moai se trouvent dans des mus\u00e9es \u00e9trangers, et les Rapanui demandent le retour de certains d&rsquo;entre eux, comme le c\u00e9l\u00e8bre <em>Hoa Hakananai&rsquo;a<\/em>, conserv\u00e9 au British Museum depuis le XIX<sup>e<\/sup> si\u00e8cle.<\/p>\n<p>L&rsquo;aventurier norv\u00e9gien Thor Heyerdahl, qui traversa le Pacifique en radeau en 1947, a beaucoup fait pour la c\u00e9l\u00e9brit\u00e9 de l&rsquo;\u00eele. Mais sa th\u00e9orie selon laquelle Rapa Nui aurait d&rsquo;abord \u00e9t\u00e9 peupl\u00e9e par des Sud-Am\u00e9ricains a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9cart\u00e9e : ses habitants sont d&rsquo;origine polyn\u00e9sienne.<\/p>\n<h2>Et en France ?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>La P\u00e9rouse sur l&rsquo;\u00eele.<\/strong> Le premier Europ\u00e9en \u00e0 aborder l&rsquo;\u00eele, le Hollandais Jakob Roggeveen, l&rsquo;a baptis\u00e9e \u00ab \u00eele de P\u00e2ques \u00bb parce qu&rsquo;il y \u00e9tait arriv\u00e9 le dimanche de P\u00e2ques 1722. Quelques d\u00e9cennies plus tard, en 1786, le navigateur fran\u00e7ais Jean-Fran\u00e7ois de La P\u00e9rouse y fait escale ; une baie de la c\u00f4te nord porte encore son nom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pierre Loti et La Flore.<\/strong> En janvier 1872, la fr\u00e9gate fran\u00e7aise <em>La Flore<\/em>, command\u00e9e par le contre-amiral de Lapelin, mouille quatre jours devant l&rsquo;\u00eele. Sa mission : rapporter une grande statue de pierre. Parmi les marins se trouve un jeune aspirant de vingt et un ans, Julien Viaud, qui deviendra l&rsquo;\u00e9crivain Pierre Loti. Il dessine les moai sur place et racontera plus tard son s\u00e9jour dans <em>L&rsquo;\u00cele de P\u00e2ques<\/em>, publi\u00e9 en 1899.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Une t\u00eate de moai au quai Branly.<\/strong> La t\u00eate monumentale rapport\u00e9e par <em>La Flore<\/em>, en tuf, haute de 1,85 m\u00e8tre, est aujourd&rsquo;hui l&rsquo;une des pi\u00e8ces les plus spectaculaires du mus\u00e9e du quai Branly \u2013 Jacques Chirac, \u00e0 Paris, o\u00f9 elle accueille les visiteurs. Au d\u00e9but du XX<sup>e<\/sup> si\u00e8cle, elle \u00e9tait expos\u00e9e sous le portique de la galerie de min\u00e9ralogie du Mus\u00e9um d&rsquo;histoire naturelle, au Jardin des Plantes. C&rsquo;est l\u00e0, selon le Metropolitan Museum de New York, que Pablo Picasso aurait pu la voir, avant de peindre en 1908 l&rsquo;un de ses grands nus aux visages massifs.<\/p>\n<h2>O\u00f9 voir les moai aujourd&rsquo;hui<\/h2>\n<p>La plupart des moai se trouvent sur l&rsquo;\u00eele de P\u00e2ques, accessible en avion depuis Santiago du Chili.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rano Raraku :<\/strong> la carri\u00e8re-volcan o\u00f9 des centaines de statues, inachev\u00e9es ou \u00e0 demi enterr\u00e9es, sont encore visibles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ahu Tongariki :<\/strong> la plus grande plateforme de l&rsquo;\u00eele, avec quinze moai align\u00e9s, superbe au lever du soleil.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ahu Akivi :<\/strong> sept moai qui, exceptionnellement, regardent vers l&rsquo;oc\u00e9an.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Le mus\u00e9e anthropologique Sebasti\u00e1n-Englert,<\/strong> \u00e0 Hanga Roa, pour comprendre la culture rapanui.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acc\u00e8s et r\u00e8gles :<\/strong> l&rsquo;entr\u00e9e du parc national est payante et encadr\u00e9e ; il est interdit de toucher les statues ou de monter sur les <em>ahu<\/em>. V\u00e9rifiez les conditions de visite et de s\u00e9jour sur les sites officiels.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00c0 Paris :<\/strong> la t\u00eate de moai du mus\u00e9e du quai Branly \u2013 Jacques Chirac.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Questions fr\u00e9quentes<\/h2>\n<h3>Combien y a-t-il de moai ?<\/h3>\n<p>Pr\u00e8s d&rsquo;un millier. Une \u00e9tude de 2025 en a analys\u00e9 962. Beaucoup se trouvent encore \u00e0 la carri\u00e8re du Rano Raraku.<\/p>\n<h3>Comment les moai ont-ils \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9plac\u00e9s ?<\/h3>\n<p>Selon une \u00e9tude publi\u00e9e en 2025 par Carl Lipo et Terry Hunt, ils ont \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00ab march\u00e9s \u00bb debout, \u00e0 l&rsquo;aide de cordes, en les faisant osciller le long de routes am\u00e9nag\u00e9es. Cela correspond aux traditions orales rapanui.<\/p>\n<h3>Les habitants ont-ils d\u00e9truit leur \u00eele ?<\/h3>\n<p>Le r\u00e9cit d&rsquo;un \u00ab \u00e9cocide \u00bb est aujourd&rsquo;hui fortement contest\u00e9. Les recherches r\u00e9centes sugg\u00e8rent que la population ne s&rsquo;est pas effondr\u00e9e avant l&rsquo;arriv\u00e9e des Europ\u00e9ens, et que le d\u00e9clin est surtout d\u00fb aux maladies et aux raids esclavagistes.<\/p>\n<h3>Pourquoi les moai regardent-ils vers l&rsquo;int\u00e9rieur de l&rsquo;\u00eele ?<\/h3>\n<p>Ils repr\u00e9sentent des anc\u00eatres qui veillent sur les villages et leur transmettent leur protection.<\/p>\n<h3>Peut-on voir un moai en France ?<\/h3>\n<p>Oui. Une t\u00eate monumentale, rapport\u00e9e en 1872 par la fr\u00e9gate <em>La Flore<\/em>, est expos\u00e9e au mus\u00e9e du quai Branly \u2013 Jacques Chirac, \u00e0 Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Pendant des si\u00e8cles, on a cherch\u00e9 des explications compliqu\u00e9es aux moai, en oubliant d&rsquo;\u00e9couter ceux qui les avaient faits. Les Rapanui disaient que leurs anc\u00eatres de pierre avaient march\u00e9 ; la science vient de leur donner raison. L&rsquo;un d&rsquo;eux a m\u00eame fait le voyage jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-attribution\" style=\"font-size:0.85em;color:#666;\"><em>Image : Moai au pied du volcan Rano Raraku, \u00eele de P\u00e2ques. Licence : domaine public. Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Moai_Rano_raraku.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les habitants de Rapa Nui l&rsquo;ont toujours racont\u00e9 : les moai ont march\u00e9 jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 leurs plateformes. Longtemps, on a pris cette tradition pour une l\u00e9gende. En 2025, deux arch\u00e9ologues ont publi\u00e9 la synth\u00e8se de plus de dix ans de recherches : en \u00e9tudiant pr\u00e8s d&rsquo;un millier de statues et en faisant \u00ab marcher \u00bb une&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1620],"tags":[3426,3427,3428,3423,3429,3422,3421,3311,3425,3424],"artist":[1704],"movement":[3419],"museum":[3420],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sculpture","tag-ahu-tongariki","tag-archeologie","tag-art-precolombien","tag-art-rapa-nui","tag-chili","tag-ile-de-paques","tag-moai","tag-patrimoine-mondial-unesco","tag-rano-raraku","tag-sculpture-polynesienne","artist-unknown","movement-rapa-nui-art","museum-easter-island-chile"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Les Moai de l&#039;\u00eele de P\u00e2ques : des statues qui ont march\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Les Moai de l&#039;\u00eele de P\u00e2ques ont sans doute \u00ab march\u00e9 \u00bb jusqu&#039;\u00e0 leurs plateformes. 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