The Sorobabel Fati Book of Rapanui Names. LOC original manuscripts 1

2019·5.6 MB·rap

by  José Fati & Sorobabel Fati

UCL
Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction
Project
(original manuscripts)
The Sorobabel Fati book of
Rapanui names
Cover photograph: Adam Stanford, AerialCam.
Sorababel Fati on LOC’s second season of excavations at the Puna Pau
pukao quarry, 2012.
The Sorobabel Fati book of Rapanui names
After working with LOC on its excavations at the Puna Pau pukao
quarry (2012–13), Rapanui elder and field archaeologist Sorobabel
(Zorobabel) Fati, presented LOC with a book of Rapanui names,
originally prepared by his father José Fati. We copied and returned
it to him. He also shared the book with the team from the Deutsches
Archaeologisches Institut on the Island, with which he was also
working. After his death in 2014, a box containing the book and
other heritage related material was reported by his friend and
fellow Rapa Nui archaeologist, Sonia Haoa, to have “disappeared”
(S. Haoa pers. comm.), leaving us and the German team—unknown
to the local heritage community —with the only copies. We at once
presented Ms Haoa and the Biblioteca William Mulloy, the local
heritage library at the Museo Antropológico P. Sebastián Englert,
with copies. Whether the original book was discarded, stolen, or
deliberately sequestered—a depressingly common occurrence in
Rapa Nui archaeology—remains unknown.
The book, which is hand written, contains lists of the
Rapanui names of individual coastal places and landscape
features, coastal ahu, ahu in the interior of the island, inland
and interior places and landscape features, caves, waterholes,
hills, family names and the wider social groupings with which
these latter are associated, different wood types (or trees),
genealogies, the phases of the moon, and the island’s winds
and fish (if the writer, as a non-Rapanui speaker, has translated
correctly).
There is no doubt that its 68 pages contains much information
that was not freely available till now (it lists for example many
topographical names that are not on the University of Chile’s Atlas
Arqueologico de Isla de Pascua and many unfamiliar ahu names)
and Señor Fati was right to want it disseminated and used. But it
is not without its difficulties, principal amongst which is identifying
the places mentioned, most of which can only be located in relation
to other sites, which in some cases we know the whereabouts of,
but which in others we do not. There are also problems with its
layout. The names of the coast, for example, go anticlockwise from
Hanga Roa o Tai (the bay); the names of coastal and some inland
ahu (the numbers of which, though close to those of Englert, do
not correspond exactly with them), clockwise around it from an
unlocated ahu somewhere near Ahu Riata. Because of the writing
style of the transcriber and the poor quality of the copy made on
the island, it can also be difficult for a non-Rapanui speaker to read
and make sense of. Finally, it contains culturally sensitive data,
such as the names of and—significantly—the whereabouts of caves.
For a landscape project such as ours, the potential importance
of the book is obvious, and this is perhaps why Señor Fati chose
to give it to us in the first place. It is also an invaluable source
for the study of Rapanui toponomy. To date LOC has used it only
sparingly—for the reasons outlined above. But we have and are
using it in an exploration of the relationship of ahu to the sea (and
water generally), and in the compilation of a definitive list of ahu
for use in ahu landscape survey and ahu conservation; and we
will certainly refer to it in future surveys. How useful it will be
to other projects remains to be seen. But Señor Fati, a Rapanui
elder and experienced field archaeologist thought it important
and worth sharing, and after studying it, we agree. In accordance
with his wishes we now make it available to the wider Rapa Nui
archaeological and heritage community.
MST 031019
Contents
Untitled 1
Places and landscape features (bays, islands, 3
promontories etc.) around the coast
Coastal ahu
18
Ahu in the interior
29
Places and landscape features around the coast (cont.)
30
Inland places and landscape features 36
Caves
47
Waterholes 50
Hills 54
Family names and wider social groupings 56
Wood/ trees 57
Family names and wider social groupings (cont.) 58
Genealogies 60
Phases of the moon 64
Winds 64
Genealogies (cont.) 65
Fishes 67

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