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Given the isolation of Rapa Nui during the period before air travel, Father
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In his will, he left all his books, his writings and his collection of native artifacts to the
Government of Chile with the intention of forming a museum, but it wasn't until 1994 that the
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ability to work and to buy imported goods, both of which were controlled by the state-backed island company. In historian
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