# Fischer 1997: Rongorongo: The Easter Island Script. History, Traditions, Texts

> Steven Roger Fischer, 1997. 5 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Source for the second full set of drawings and for the procreation-chant reading…

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# Rongorongo: The Easter Island Script. History, Traditions, Texts

Steven Roger Fischer, 1997. _Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics 14. Clarendon Press, Oxford_.

A history of the script and its study, new line drawings of the whole corpus, and Fischer's claim to have read the Santiago Staff and most other texts as procreation chants of the form "X copulated with Y, there issued forth Z".

**Rongorongo** Bookdoi: **[10.1093/oso/9780198237105.001.0001](https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198237105.001.0001)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

Source for the second full set of drawings and for the procreation-chant reading and its tests.

## Cited by on this site 5 records

[The Santiago texts: G Small Santiago, H Large Santiago, I Santiago Staff, Z Poike palimpsest](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rongorongo/artifacts/ART0D4CCRB41PHT/the-santiago-texts-g-small-santiago-h-large-santiago-i)

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[Eugène Eyraud reports inscribed tablets in every house](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rongorongo/events/EVT0D4CCBD22BV9/eugene-eyraud-reports-inscribed-tablets-in-every-house)

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[Steven Roger Fischer](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rongorongo/people/FIG0D4CC96R25P9/steven-roger-fischer)

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[Rongorongo](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rongorongo)

The mystery article

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[Is Fischer's procreation-chant reading of the Santiago Staff correct?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rongorongo/questions/QST0D4CCE30644S/is-fischers-procreation-chant-reading-of-the-santiago-staff)

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## Cite it

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Fischer, S. R. (1997). Rongorongo: The Easter Island Script. History, Traditions, Texts. Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics 14. Clarendon Press, Oxford. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198237105.001.0001
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