Ahu Akivi is situated nine miles (15 kilometers) from the
quarry. It has been estimated that the moai at this site were
probably transported and erected after AD 1400. The replica
moai was created from photogrammetric data collected on one
statue at Ahu Akivi by Jo Anne Van Tilburg, but is actually
represents the statistically average shape, height and weight
of 134 statues found intact outside of the quarry where they
were carved. Ahu Akivi is an unusual site because it is
inland. Although many visitors assume the statues were placed
here to face the ocean, in fact they were meant to look out
over a very large village which today is in ruins. The site
was restored in 1960 by the American archaeologist William
Mulloy. During the restoration, it took a full
month—using a stone ramp and two wooden levers—to
raise the first of the seven moai. By the time they got to the
last moai, the same task took them less than a week.