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Tangata Manu, or “Birdman,” was the title given to the winner of an annual ritual competition practiced by Easter Island natives up until Christian missionaries suppressed it in the 1860s. The object of the contest was the retrieval of the first sooty tern egg of the season from the cliffs of a rocky islet off the coast of the main island. The winner’s clan received the right to collect that season’s harvest of wild bird eggs, while the Birdman himself was afforded what privileges? Discuss
Source: The Free Dictionary