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Rongorongo Text I
Text I of the rongorongo corpus, also known as the Santiago Staff, is the longest of the two dozen surviving rongorongo texts. Statistical analysis suggests that its contents are distinct from those of the other texts. Other names I is the standard designation, from Thomas Barthel, Barthel (1958). Fischer (1997) refers to it as RR10. Location ''Chilean National Museum of Natural History, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural,'' Santiago. Catalog # 5.499 (316). There are reproductions at th''Institut für Völkerkunde'' Tübingen (prior to 1989); Bishop Museum, Honolulu; ''Musées Royaux de Bruxelles,'' Belgium (as of 2008 temporarily housed in the ''Musée du Malgré Tout'' in Treignes); and in Steven Fischer's personal collection in Auckland. Physical description The 126-cm long staff is entirely covered with glyphs running along its length. It is round in cross-section, 5.7 cm in diameter at one end and 6.4 cm at the other (per Fischer; length 126.6 cm and circumf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rongorongo Staff 8-11
Rongorongo (Rapa Nui language, Rapa Nui: ) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island, Rapa Nui (Easter Island) that appears to be writing system, writing or proto-writing. Numerous attempts at Decipherment of rongorongo, decipherment have been made, with none being successful. Although some calendrical and what might prove to be genealogical information has been identified, none of these glyphs can actually be read. If rongorongo does prove to be writing and proves to be an independent invention, it would be one of very few independent Invention of writing, inventions of writing in human history. Two dozen wooden objects bearing rongorongo inscriptions, some heavily weathered, burned, or otherwise damaged, were collected in the late 19th century and are now scattered in museums and private collections. None remain on Easter Island. The objects are mostly tablets shaped from irregular pieces of wood, sometimes driftwood, but include a chieftain's staf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rongorongo
Rongorongo (Rapa Nui: ) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) that appears to be writing or proto-writing. Numerous attempts at decipherment have been made, with none being successful. Although some calendrical and what might prove to be genealogical information has been identified, none of these glyphs can actually be read. If rongorongo does prove to be writing and proves to be an independent invention, it would be one of very few independent inventions of writing in human history. Two dozen wooden objects bearing rongorongo inscriptions, some heavily weathered, burned, or otherwise damaged, were collected in the late 19th century and are now scattered in museums and private collections. None remain on Easter Island. The objects are mostly tablets shaped from irregular pieces of wood, sometimes driftwood, but include a chieftain's staff, a bird-man statuette, and two ''reimiro'' ornaments. There are also a few petroglyphs which may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vertical Bar
The vertical bar, , is a glyph with various uses in mathematics, computing, and typography. It has many names, often related to particular meanings: Sheffer stroke (in logic), pipe, bar, or (literally the word "or"), vbar, and others. Usage Mathematics The vertical bar is used as a mathematical symbol in numerous ways: * absolute value: , x, , read "the ''absolute value'' of ''x''" * cardinality: , S, , read "the ''cardinality'' of the set ''S''" * conditional probability: P(X, Y), reads "the probability of ''X'' ''given'' ''Y''" * determinant: , A, , read "the ''determinant'' of the matrix ''A''". When the matrix entries are written out, the determinant is denoted by surrounding the matrix entries by vertical bars instead of the usual brackets or parentheses of the matrix, as in \begin a & b \\ c & d\end. * distance: P, ab, denoting the shortest ''distance'' between point P to line ab, so line P, ab is perpendicular to line ab * divisibility: a \mid b, read "''a'' ''divides'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CEIPP
The C.E.I.P.P., or the ''Centre ''(formerly ''Cercle'')'' d'Etudes sur l'île de Pâques et la Polynésie'' ("Study Centre (formerly "Circle") on Easter Island and Polynesia") is a geographic and anthropological group created by André Valenta and Michel-Alain Jumeau. The CEIPP is notable for its members' publications on Easter Island. These include: *''Nouveau Regard sur l'île de Pâques,'' a collective work published by Moana Editions, Saintry-sur-Seine, 1982 *''Les Mystères Résolus de l'île de Pâques,'' a collective work published by Editions Step, Évry, 1993. *Michel-Alain Jumeau and Yves Pioger's ''Bibliographie de l'île de Pâques.'' Publications de la Société des Océanistes, nº46, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, 1997. . The CEIPP also houses the Thomas Barthel archives of rongorongo Rongorongo (Rapa Nui: ) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) that appears to be writing or proto-writing. Numerous attempts at decipherment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rongorongo Text T
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 T is the standard designation, from Barthel (1958). Fischer (1997) refers to it as RR11. Location Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Catalog B.03629 Description A broken, decayed piece of a tablet, 31 × 12.5 × 2.5 cm of unknown wood. There are faint ridges, perhaps the remnants of fluting. It has been heavily damaged by moisture, fire, and insects on both sides, but with more water damage on side b, as well as splitting and a long gouge down the center. Métraux (1938) said of the Honolulu tablets T and U that, :''Probably these tablets were kept for some time in a cave, and the side lying on the ground was greatly injured by the damp soil.'' He was of the opinion that T had once been a fine artifact: :''The same skill and the same vigour of design, which made the best tablets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rongorongo Text G
Text G of the rongorongo corpus, the smaller of two tablets located in Santiago and therefore also known as the Small Santiago tablet, is one of two dozen surviving rongorongo texts. It may include a short genealogy. Other names G is the standard designation, from Barthel (1958). Fischer (1997) refers to it as RR8. Location '' Museo Nacional de Historia Natural,'' Santiago. Catalog # 5.497 (314). There are reproductions at the ''Musée de l'Homme,'' Paris; '' Padri dei Sacri Cuori'' (SSCC), Rome; Museum of Mankind, London; ''Ibero-American Institute,'' Berlin; Bishop Museum, HonoluluDepartment of Anthropology National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington; American Museum of Natural History, New York; van Hoorebeeck Collection, Belgium; and in Steven Fischer's collection in Auckland. Description A beautiful fluted tablet in excellent condition, 32 × 12.1 × 1.8 cm, of Pacific rosewood (Orliac 2005). Provenance In 1870 Father Roussel gave ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staff Of Office
A staff of office is a staff, the carrying of which often denotes an official's position, a social rank or a degree of social prestige. Apart from the ecclesiastical and ceremonial usages mentioned below, there are less formal usages. A gold- or silver-topped cane can express social standing (or dandyism). Teachers or prefects in schools traditionally carried less elaborate canes which marked their right (and potential threat) to administer canings, and military officers carry a residual threat of physical punishment in their swagger sticks. Orchestral conductors have in their batons symbols of authority as well as tools of their trade. Ecclesiastical use Churchwardens (and sometimes sidesmen) traditionally carry staves or wands on special occasions as an emblem of their office. In the Eastern Orthodox Church and some of the Oriental Orthodox Churches an ecclesiastical walking stick is used by bishops, archimandrites and hegumens (abbots) when walking outside. It is usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste Dutrou-Bornier
Jean-Baptiste Onésime Dutrou-Bornier (19 November 1834 – 6 August 1876) was a French mariner who settled on Easter Island in 1868, purchased much of the island, removed many of the Rapa Nui people, and turned the island into a sheep ranch. Early life Dutrou-Bornier served as an artillery officer in the Crimean War, and by 1860, had become a master mariner. He abandoned his wife and young son in France, and in 1865, bought a one-third share in the schooner ''Tampico''. He sailed to Peru, where he was arrested, accused of arms-dealing, and sentenced to death. Released on the intervention of the French consul, he sailed to Tahiti, where he began recruiting labour from the islands of East Polynesia for coconut plantations. Arrival on Easter Island In November 1866, Dutrou-Bornier transported two missionaries, Kaspar Zumbohm and Theodore Escolan, to Easter Island. He visited the island again in March 1867 to recruit labourers, but then amassed huge gambling debts and, as a result ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chilean Corvette O'Higgins (1866)
In 1864 the Chilean government ordered the construction of two corvettes in Ravenhill, the ''O'Higgins'' and the ''Chacabuco''. Both corvettes were seized by the British authorities in order to enforce a neutrality provision in the impending state of war between Chile and Spain (Chincha Islands War, 1864-1866). In 1866 the countries reached an agreement in which Chile received the corvettes and Spain the ships ''Arapiles'' and ''Victoria''. In 1869, under the command of Manuel Blanco Encalada, the remains of Bernardo O'Higgins, first buried in Peru, were repatriated to Chile on board of the frigate that bore his name. In 1870, the ''O'Higgins'' went to Easter Island and performed the first topographic survey and scientific description of the island and acquired Rongorongo text I, the ''Santiago Staff''. The ship had an active role in the Naval Campaign of the War of the Pacific under the command of Jorge Montt and participated in the Capture of the Huáscar off Punta de Angam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
