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What can a repeated pattern tell us?
The signs on the surviving wooden tablets.
The question behind Rongorongo
Rongorongo belongs to Rapa Nui’s cultural heritage. The Australian Museum describes how nineteenth-century epidemics, slave raids and missionary suppression disrupted the transmission of knowledge, while acknowledging knowledge shared by Rapa Nui cultural knowledge holders Victor Pakomio and Johnny Tuki. The surviving inscriptions have no generally accepted scholarly decipherment. That uncertainty does not erase living cultural knowledge. Patterns in the signs need controls and independent checks; a plausible interpretation is not a demonstrated translation.
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- British Museum: rongorongo tablet Oc1903,-.150
Collection record for a historical wooden kohau rongorongo from Rapa Nui, distinct from the modern replica below. The record identifies an object, not an established reading. Image reuse rights have not been reviewed; no museum photograph or transcription is reproduced here.
- Australian Museum: Kōhau Roŋoroŋo — Talking Tablet
Cultural context acknowledging Victor Pakomio and Johnny Tuki. The featured object is a modern educational replica carved by Pakomio, not an ancient source tablet. No image, video or transcription is reproduced here; later reuse needs rights review and appropriate cultural attribution and consultation.