The statue is at the top of the hill. Now my Chief has walked away and therefore everyone else as well. I cannot get the Chief to direct work on it. I've finished upgrading everything and don't know what the problem is.
Has anyone else had this problem? I need some suggestions on how to make them work on it again.
Thanks in advance for your help!

Is the chief sick? if not just put them back on the path and they will/should direct work again.

Or is anyone in the tribe sick - heal them and put chief back on the path.

You may look at these thread:
(SPOILER!) Statue Question!
(SPOILERS) STATUE HELP PLEASE

And be sure you have the right version of the game: 1.00.04 (it's in the "Menu" screen of your game, at the left bottom)
Or look here: VV3 Updated Version: 1.00.04

Now that the game is available from many different game portals, we need to add the warning that the update should be obtained only by people who have 1.00.02 or 1.00.03 purchased directly from LDW. If the game was purchased elsewhere, you already have 1.00.04, and downloading our version will cause your game to revert to a demo version, because other game site's activation codes will not work with our version.

Is 1.00.04 the latest updated version? Do you all anticipate another update any time soon?

1.00.04 is the current version of the game. We are evaluating remaining bugs in the game, but we won't speculate at this point about if or when another update might be released.

My ver is 1.00.03. Where can I get the latest.

Check Arthur's sticky post.