CHILE-CULTURE-OVERSEAS

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MIKE LEYRAL An artist paints Rapa Nui native drawings on a person as an other man makes the last work on a float made with eucalytus wood prior to the festivities on February 12, 2015 in Hanga Roa on Chile's Easter Island (Rapa Nui), as people take part in the two week Tapati Rapa Nui, a festival that is at once a test of masculine strength and feminine grace, celebrating Polynesian pride. The sculptures symbolize ancestral deitie s: the moai, mystical stone giants, or bird-man. AFP PHOTO / GREGORY BOISSY (Photo credit should read GREGORY BOISSY/AFP via Getty Images)