The people of Easter Island live in small wooden houses built with timber imported from Chile and New Zealand. They get their water from pipes and have showers in their homes or at the beach. Their diet consists of foods like yam, lobster, chicken, sweet potatoes, fish, and poi made from taro. The indigenous people are Polynesian and the population declined dramatically from an original 15,000 to just 2,000 by 1722, though it has since rebounded to around 5,800 currently. In 2007, 50,000 tourists visited the island each year to see the large moai statues carved from stone that still remain a mystery as to how they were constructed.