| abstract | - Moai are famous stone statues found on Easter Island that typically depict a human's head and upper body and are sometimes seen with a hat called a pukao. For whatever reason, they wind up cropping up in fiction quite a bit. Very frequently their existence or history is treated as a mystery, possibly to be "explained" by some element of the plot, even though in Real Life their significance and means of construction are known and uncontroversial. More recently, the island is held up as a warning what civilization may face as the predominately archeological research suggests there was a thriving population, but it was apparently so obsessed with creating the statues that they overtaxed the island's resources and made it uninhabitable with an environmental collapse. More often than not the fictional equivalent is typically just the comically large moai head and neck, as opposed to a full-body moai. The pukao (a hat- or topknot-like adornment) may or may not be present, as well. (This is because the most widely-known real-life moai are those of Rano Raraku, which typically are buried up to their necks in the ground and do not have the pukao.) Examples of Eenie Meenie Miny Moai include:
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