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rongo-rongo Archæol.|ˈrɒŋgəʊˈrɒŋgəʊ|
[Native name.]
Hieroglyphic signs or script found on wooden tablets on Easter Island, a Chilean dependency in the eastern Pacific Ocean; the art of incising these. Also attrib. and ellipt.
1919K. Routledge Mystery of Easter Island xvi. 243 The tablets, known as ‘koháu-rongo-rongo’, were an integral part of life on the island. Ibid. 244 Every clan had professors in the art who were known as rongo-rongo men (‘tangata-rongo-rongo’). Ibid. 249 Kaara was servant to the Ariki, and had been taught rongo-rongo by him... The matters with which..the rongo-rongo would deal, such as genealogies, lists of ariki, or the wanderings of the people. 1947D. Diringer Alphabet viii. 137 The script rongo-rongo was the monopoly of organized teachers; every clan had its own ‘writing professors’, that is, experts in the art who were known as tangata-rongo-rongo, ‘rongo-rongo-men’. Ibid., A less elaborate kind of rongo-rongo was called tau. 1957M. Bullock tr. Métraux's Easter Island xii. 188 The spear carried by the leader..recalls the staff sometimes borne by the Easter Island rongorongo. Ibid., The name given to these [hieroglyphic] tablets, kohau rongorongo. 1958T. Heyerdahl Aku-Aku vi. 164 The cave contained every possible thing except rongo-rongo. |