[2] Along with Viriamo, Ana Eva Hei was among the last surviving women from Rapa Nui to receive traditional facial tattoos.

"[3] The singer and community leader, Luis Pate Paoa,[4] remembered meeting her when he was a child, recalling that she danced and sang a song about cannibalism.

[1] Drawings that have been reported to depict Ana Eva Hei were made by Walter Knoche 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.

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.