The last stop on our circumnavigating driving tour of the Rurutu was to visit this replica of A’a. The original wood carving, now in the collection of the British Museum and regarded as one of the finest examples of Polynesian scupture extant, was presented by the people of Rurutu to a London Missionary Society group in 1821 to mark their conversion to Christianity. A’a is a god figure apparently creating gods and men, seen as the small figures which stud the body. Casts of the original were made available to other museums and influenced artists such as Henry Moore and Picasso, who had a replica in his collection.