"The author, a long-time scholar of Rapa Nui culture and ethnohistory, describes her principles for decoding ancient Rongo-Rongo texts. She also provides the texts of the tablets preserved in the museum and a 'catalog' of the glyphs or symbols. She identifies the script as hieroglyphic and indigenous. Includes English-language summary and table of contents"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.