Sacred Texts -- Pacific Islander Religions

Te Pito Te Henua, or Easter Island Index

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| | Te Pito Te Henua, Or Easter Island by William J. Thomson [1891] | Easter Island is a surreal landscape, with its giant stone heads and undeciphered rongo-rongo script--the only writing system invented in the Pacific islands. This account of an expedition to Easter Island in the late nineteenth century will have modern social scientists (as well as indigenous rights activists) gritting their teeth.

Te Pito Te Henua, or Easter Island Index

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