{"id":131,"date":"2012-04-11T15:49:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T06:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/blog\/?page_id=131"},"modified":"2025-11-13T07:37:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:37:41","slug":"x-new-york-birdman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/blog\/tablets\/x-new-york-birdman\/","title":{"rendered":"X: New York Birdman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/X-scaled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" src=\"http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/X-1024x578.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-982\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/X-1024x578.png 1024w, http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/X-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/X-768x433.png 768w, http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/X-1536x867.png 1536w, http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/X-2048x1155.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Above illustration appears in the &#8220;Tafeln&#8221; of Barthel (1958) with the description &#8220;Originalzeichnung des American Museum of Natural History, New York&#8221;. This graphic was turned\u2014somewhat cluelessly by yours truly\u2014into 7 &#8220;lines&#8221;. Three of these, the &#8220;neck&#8221;, the &#8220;belly&#8221;, and the &#8220;flank&#8221; were in turn made out to be two, non-boustrophaedon lines each.  For reference see the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rongorongo_text_X#:~:text=been%20added%20later.-,Text,-%5Bedit%5D\">Wikipedia page<\/a>, which shows the drawings made by Fischer (1997). Finally in each of these cases the two lines were split and re-joined into single lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result may have looked tidy, but was completely unwarranted. It seems more careful inspection of the actual object reveals that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On the &#8220;neck&#8221;; those two little fishes which are rather suspect as glyphs to begin with, do not form anything of a second line<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On the &#8220;flank&#8221;; the undescript angled strokes actually form a single line. Thus splitting the line into two results in the glyphs being split in half. The line(s) were also turned upside-down!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Only in the case of the &#8220;belly&#8221; are there actually two short line segments, as Horley (2021) makes clear. The two line segments are somewhat jammed together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Mea culpa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below are links to some of the displays of Item X in these pages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a title=\"Item X (Barthel)\" href=\"http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/Rongorongo_new\/views\/lines.php?item=X&amp;type=b\">Barthel graphics<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a title=\"Item X (Fischer)\" href=\"http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/Rongorongo_new\/views\/lines.php?item=X&amp;type=f\">Fischer graphics<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a title=\"Barthel\/Fischer comparison\" href=\"http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/Rongorongo_new\/views\/comp.php?item=X\">Barthel\/Fischer comparison<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No tablet view<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And here links to other pages for this item:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a title=\"Item X\" href=\"http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/Rongorongo\/X\/index.html\">Page for Item X on old site.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a title=\"Rongorongo.org page for Item X\" href=\"http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/rongorongo_org\/corpus\/x.html\">Item X on Rongorongo.org<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a title=\"Item X on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rongorongo_text_X\">Item X on Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above illustration appears in the &#8220;Tafeln&#8221; of Barthel (1958) with the description &#8220;Originalzeichnung des American Museum of Natural History, New York&#8221;. This graphic was turned\u2014somewhat cluelessly by yours truly\u2014into 7 &#8220;lines&#8221;. Three of these, the &#8220;neck&#8221;, the &#8220;belly&#8221;, and the &#8220;flank&#8221; were in turn made out to be two, non-boustrophaedon lines each. For reference see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":62,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-131","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2EN9x-27","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131\/revisions\/990"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kohaumotu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}