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Rongorongo and the Rock Art of Easter Island Shawn Mclaughlin Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation Volume 18 Article 2 Issue 2 October 2004 Rongorongo and the Rock Art of Easter Island Shawn McLaughlin Follow this and additional works at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj Part of the History of the Pacific slI ands Commons, and the Pacific slI ands Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation McLaughlin, Shawn (2004) "Rongorongo and the Rock Art of Easter Island," Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation: Vol. 18 : Iss. 2 , Article 2. Available at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj/vol18/iss2/2 This Research Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Hawai`i Press at Kahualike. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation by an authorized editor of Kahualike. For more information, please contact [email protected]. McLaughlin: Rongorongo and the Rock Art of Easter Island f\2-0M TH£ £DITO{l.~ th 1!J! THIS ISSUE IS MAKING its appearance as the VI Inter- memories of wonderful feasts with wonderful friends. The national Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific, held this tradition of umu feasting is an interesting social phenomena as year in Chile, is ending. We plan to have news about the well as a delicious meal. While many umu are small family meetings and the papers presented in our next issue. A great affairs, at times an umu is prepared to feed the entire island deal of planning and effort went into making the VI1h Interna­ population. Some are feasts to honor the newly deceased. tional Conference a success, and we thank all of those in­ While a major umu can be a huge and expensive undertaking volved for their hard work. While it is a tad far-afield, accord­ (both time and money), it brings increased status to the host­ ing to the author of Art and History in Paestum (2003), the ing family and this is a basic and very important part of island word symposium originally meant a "drinking bout". Well, society. our lips are sealed. th -:~, A LOOK BACK: THIS YEAR marks the 200 anniver- OUR LEAD PAPER for this issue is a most interesting sary of Yuri Fedorovich Lisyanskiy's 1804 visit to Easter Is­ essay on rongorongo and petroglyph designs, pointing out the land. In command of the ship Neva, the famous Russian navi­ similarities between the designs found in two different con­ gator spent several days circumnavigating Rapa Nui while texts of the island's culture: hard volcanic stone and the softer waiting for the sister ship Nadezhda to arrive. Bad weather wooden boards. The paper, contributed by Shawn McLaugh­ made a landing on Easter Island impossible, but Neva ex­ lin, is titled: "Rongorongo and the Rock Art of Easter Island". plored along the shoreline while the captain and crew made Those of us who have been fascinated by Rapa Nui's wonder­ observations on the landscape, ceremonial platforms, dwell­ ful petroglyphs often have wondered about the relationship ings of the local inhabitants, and their plantations. Lisyanskiy between the petroglyph designs and the tiny incised glyphs on counted at least 21 statues still standing on eight different rongorongo boards. Many are extremely close, design-wise, monuments, and two other platforms were mentioned without and this brings up the question of which came first? And what specifying the number of moai. The Neva then sailed on to the can we infer from the similarities? Marquesas where Lisyanskiy was reunited with Kruzenstern, captain of the Nadezhda. The whole Russian expedition took ~o FROM BELGIUM we have a paper by Luc Vrydaghs, C. slightly more than three years and yielded invaluable scien­ Cocquyt, T. Van de Vijver, and P. Goetghebeur, titled tific materials, including vast ethnological and naturalistic col­ "Phytolitarian Evidence of the Introduction of Schoenoplectus lections. We are delighted to publish the English translation of califomicus subsp. totora at Easter Island". This paper origi­ the Easter Island portion of Urey Lisyanskiy's original report nally was presented at the International Union of Prehistoric from his round-the-world expedition of 1803-6. The transla­ and Protohistoric Sciences, Liege, Belgium in September tion is by Dr Paul Horley, Chernivsi National University, 2001. The Session title was "Environmental, Geomorphologi­ Ukraine, and is based upon Yuri Lisyanskiy, 1812. Puteshest­ cal and Social Issues in Rapa Nui Prehistory". vie vokrug sveta v 1803. 4. 5. i 1806 godah, po poveleniyu Ego Imperatorskago Velichestva Aleksandra Pervago, na '; Two SCHOOLTEACHERS in New York, Len Sharp and korable Neve, pod nachal'stvom FlOla Kapitan-Leitenanta, Fran Nottage, sent us a report on a school project titled nyne Kapitana I-go ranga i Kavalera Yuriya Lisyanskago, "Where in the World are the Moan" This project seems like a Vol. I, St. Petersburg: Th. Drehsler, Second Edition, with in­ great way to encourage and involve students and open them troduction by N. V. Dumitrashko: 1947. Puteshestvie vokrug up to the larger world. New Yorkers may wish to visit the sveta na korable "Neva" v 1803-1806 godah, Moscow: Gosu­ school and check it out for themselves! darstvennoe izdatel'stvo Geograficheskoj Literatury; Third Edition, with introduction by A. I. AIekseev: 1977. Puteshest­ '~' CALIFORNIAN BREIT RAINES contributes a paper, vie vokrug sveta v 1803, 4, 5, i 1806 godah na korable "Studying Easter Island's Molluscan Fauna". Brett, an envi­ "Neva ", Vladivostok: Dalnevostochnoe Knizhnoe Iz­ ronmental engineer, works by night as a malacologist and has datel'stvo [in Russian). Paul Horley was born in 1975 in been studying mollusks for nearly 25 years. He is a research Chernivtsi, Ukraine. He was granted his Ph.D. degree in phys­ associate with the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles ics of semiconductors and insulators. His dissertation was County. His specialty is the family Pectinidae, and he is the dedicated to the problems of self-organization and order-chaos lead author of a new book due out in January. transitions in semiconductors. He is an assistant professor at the Department of Electronics and Energy Engineering, ~ ~ '~ "FEAST AND FAMINE: A Gourmet's Guide to Rapa Chernivsi National University and has worked on a research Nui" by Georgia Lee describes the food (or lack thereof) on project concerning the influence of temperature on the per­ Easter Island, and she also includes a recipe for the delicious formance of solar cells at CINVESTAV Unidad Queretaro, poi that is part of every traditional umu. Although the tastes Mexico. Easter Island is his major free-time fascination, and sensations of a well-done umu and the ambience that sur­ which intensified after his visit there in 2002. rounds it are very hard to put into cold hard print, reading this paper brought on a massive case of salivation - along with Rapa Nui Journal 85 Vol. 18 (2) October 2004 Published by Kahualike, 2004 1 Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation, Vol. 18 [2004], Iss. 2, Art. 2 fk, AND, SERENDIPITOUSLYcomplementing the Lisyan- Another new item to watch for: a set of charming skiy report, Dr Carol Ivory, Washington State University, con­ postcards featuring drawings of the island's petroglyphs de­ tributes "Images of the Marquesas from the Krusenstern Ex­ tailed by Dr Paul Horley of the Ukraine, our multi-talented pedition, 1804". The Neva, commanded by Lisyanskiy, ren­ contributor of the Lisanskiy report. This set of postcards is dezvoused with the Nadeshda and its captain, von Krusen­ printed in black and white, and each one contains information stem, at Nukuhiva Island in the northern Marquesas. The on the location of that particular petroglyph. While it is a long ship's company included two astute and observant captains; way from the Ukraine to Easter Island, Paul managed to make three scientists and, to record the scene, an unnamed drafts­ the trip of a lifetime, and we are the benefactors! man from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. The ship's medical doctor was also a fine artist. They were assisted in J><1;p COMING ATTRACTIONS: IN om next issue we hope their work by two rival beachcombers, both of whom had to include a paper by Dirk Huyge and Nicolas Cawre, Royal lived in the Marquesas for some six years: Edward Robarts, a Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Belgium, reporting on 25 year old deserter from a British whaler and Jean Cabri, a their research of a newly discovered site on the south coast, young Frenchman. The engravings from this expedition are named Ahu 0 Tuki. We also will have a detailed report on famous in Polynesian studies. Ahu Ura Uranga te Mahina, by Charles Love. Ahu Ura Uranga te Mahina is the ahu where Hotu Matu'a was buried, '"(I "GETTING TO KNOW YOU ...." This issue inaugu- according to island legends. However, the dates obtained by rates a new feature that will serve to introduce our readers to Love from this site tend to suggest the ahu is too late in time those who are outstanding in the field of Rapa Nui studies. to have served as the site of the king's burial. We feature in this issue archaeologist and geologist, the irre­ pressible Charles M. Love of Wyoming. 6(1 As WE ARE GOING TO PRESS, some disturbing news about the island has come across our desk. Developers are "at ~~ THE EIF IS PLEASED to announce the publication of two it" again, according to news items that appeared in El Mercu­ new books. One, Early Visitors to Easter Island, 1865-1877, rio de Valparaiso in September. It seems that an unnamed contains four reports by "early visitors" Eyraud, Roussel, Loti, "private group" is considering an off-shore hotel for Easter and Pinart.
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