Polynesian hieroglyphs

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1884
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 52 KB
• Volume: 117
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(84)90110-8

✦ Synopsis

Considering CAB and c 2 or v2 as constant, we find ws a minimum for v 2 -----c2 cos. C; which makes AD perpendicular to CD or to AB ; one of the conditions assigned by Rankine. If now CAB be the variable, w~ will be zero for CAB = 180 °, in which case c2 will be equal and opposite to v2.

March 20, 1884.

Polynesian Hieroglyphs. Abb6 J. Bund has published a lithographic reproduction of a photograph, which was made, under the direction of the Archbishop of Tahiti, from a hieroglyphic tablet. The original was given to Father Zumbohm, on Easter Island, or, as the natives call it, Rapanui. The characters are engraved on a piece of wood, about 35 eentimetres long and 30 wide (13'78 X 11"81 inches), by means of sharp stones. Some of them present resemblances to fishes, birds, men~ and animals, while others seem to be merely fanciful. The repetition of similar characters, aud the oMerly arrangement, are such as to indicate an alphabetic meaning. Lee MOndes, March 15, 1884.

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