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Face-forms · Statue-mimics

Anthropoformes : Simulacridae

False Moai

Simulacrum insulare

モアイモドキ

Mimics the stone statues of a distant island. It always stands facing the sea and dislikes having its back turned to anyone.

Locality

Minamimatsuura-gun, Nagasaki Pref., Japan: in a grassy field on a cape facing the sea

Collected

29.VII.2003 Hikaru Hongu leg.

Determined

11.X.2016 Toshiro Tsuzura det.