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Rongorongo (/ ˈ r ɒ ŋ ɡ oʊ ˈ r ɒ ŋ ɡ oʊ / [1] or / ˈ r ɒ ŋ oʊ ˈ r ɒ ŋ oʊ /; [2] Rapa Nui: roŋoroŋo [ˈɾoŋoˈɾoŋo]) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that has the appearance of writing or proto-writing.
This rongorongo tablet or board is illus. Fig. 49, p. 76, in "Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island" by Eric Kjellgren, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2001, and identified there as an inscribed tablet (kohau rongorongo). It is known as the Great or Large Washington tablet. From card for 129773-4: "Engraved with shark's tooth.
The evidence is weak that rongorongo directly represents the Rapa Nui language – that is, that it is a true writing system – and oral accounts report that experts in one category of tablet were unable to read other tablets, suggesting either that rongorongo is not a unified system, or that it is proto-writing that requires the reader to ...
TABLET IS DISCUSSED AND ILLUSTRATED IN THE USNM ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1889 (PP. 514, 520, 537). TRANSFERRED FROM ETHNOLOGY TO ARCHEOLOGY ON MAY 2, 1933. FORMERLY ON EXHIBIT NMNH HALL 8, UNIT 4. 3 PLASTER CASTS [A129773-1] MADE OF BOTH REVERSE AND OBVERSE SIDES. This rongorongo tablet or board is sometimes referred to as the Atua Mata Riri tablet.
Text T of the rongorongo corpus, also known as Honolulu tablet 1 or Honolulu 3629, is the only fluted tablet in the Honolulu collection and one of two dozen surviving rongorongo texts. Other names [ edit ]
Rongorongo was considered to contain mana (sacred power). For example, chanting a timo (vengeance) tablet could release supernatural powers to kill a murderer. A woman would carry a pure (fertility) tablet while the scribes chanted it to increase her fertility. Tablets were used to increase crops or a catch of fish. [2]
Rongorongo (/ ˈ r ɒ ŋ ɡ oʊ ˈ r ɒ ŋ ɡ oʊ /; Rapa Nui: [ˈɾoŋoˈɾoŋo]) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that appears to be writing or proto-writing. Text D of the rongorongo corpus, also known as Échancrée ("notched"), is one of two dozen surviving texts. This is the tablet that started Jaussen ...
Several scholars have noticed that tablet G contains two structurally very different texts. Most of Gr is paraphrased as text K , while the last line and a half of Gr and the whole of Gv share short phrases with I and T (or at least Ta ) but not the rest of the rongorongo corpus (Pozdniakov 1996:290, 299).