Photographs of Easter Island manuscripts
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 127
place: label: Place
content: Easter Island
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Rongorongo script
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 34 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1970
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Pedro Vilaseca of Santiago, Chile, circa 1970.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.127
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs of pages from two manuscripts with Easter Island texts. Adrienne Kaeppler of the Smithsonian Institution identified them as copies of petroglyphs, drawings, and pictographs from rongorongo boards with an explanation of the characters in the native language. The location of the original manuscripts has not yet been determined.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional depictions of Rongorongo script held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 75-13 and MS 1292.