Ana Eva Hei, also Uka ʻa Hei ʻa ʻArero, or Reina Eva (Queen Eva) (c.1849 – c.1949), was the consort of the penultimate ruler of

Rapa Nui Easter Island (, ; , ) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. The island is renowned for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, ...

Atamu Tekena Atamu Tekena or Atamu te Kena, full name Atamu Maurata Te Kena ʻAo Tahi (c. 1850 – August 1892) was the penultimate ‘ Ariki or King of Rapa Nui (i.e. Easter Island) from 1883 until his death. In 1888, he signed a treaty of annexation cedi ...

. She was one of the last surviving Rapa Nui people to have been tattooed using traditional practices. Along with

Viriamo Victoria Veriamo a Huki a Parapara, also known as Viriamo () was one of the last surviving indigenous women of Easter Island to have been tattooed using traditional practices, along with Ana Eva Hei. She was a cultural informant who shared her ...

, Ana Eva Hei was among the last surviving women from Rapa Nui to receive traditional facial tattoos. Her tattoos were described by

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, who undertook a research expedition to her home from 1934 to 1935. He stated that her tattoos included: "two parallel stripes crossing her forehead from one ear to the other and the inner edge of the ear tattooed ... The design on her lower jaw is composed of a triangular figure which meets an oval design, together forming an open angle. Her hands are covered with thin blue lines reminiscent of mittens." The singer and community leader,

Luis Pate Paoa Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

, remembered meeting her when he was a child, recalling that she danced and sang a song about cannibalism. Drawings that have been reported to depict Ana Eva Hei were made by

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in 1911. However, according to researchers Cristián Moreno Pakarati and Rafal Wieczorek, Knoche did not label the images, and thus, they have proposed some doubt over whether she is the woman depicted. However,

Adrienne Kaeppler Adrienne Lois Kaeppler (July 26, 1935 – March 5, 2022) was an American anthropologist, curator of oceanic ethnology at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. She served as the President of the ...

believed there is significant circumstantial evidence that the subject in Knoche's illustrations is her. This includes evidence where she appears in other's works; for example, a woman called Uaritaï, with the same tattoos as Ana Eva Hei, is recorded by Julien Viaud in his writings. Married to King

, records of the number of their children differ: according to Adrienne Kaeppler, they had fourteen children; but according to Cristián Moreno Pakarati, they had six.Pakarati, Cristián Moreno
"Los últimos' Ariki Mau y la evolución del poder político en Rapa Nui."
(2010).

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