The Lost Gods of Easter Island. A carved wooden idol that Attenborough purchased in an auction room is traced back to its origin: Easter Island. It was cheap because the seller believed it was a forgery. During the course of this programme its whole history is discovered: carved on Easter Island while there was still wood of the Toromiro tree (now extinct on the island), to represent the god Makemake, traded with the crew of captain Cook s ship, transported to Tahiti, probably traded by the Tahitians with the crew of an American whaling ship and ended up in the US.