Fanny Wonu Veys is curator Oceania at the Wereldmuseum and holds the chair Art and Material Culture of Oceania at Leiden University. She has curated Treasures from the depot: Easter Island (2022-2027) and is particularly interested in the significance of historical objects in a contemporary setting.Jan J. Boersema holds the chair Principles of Environmental Sciences at Leiden University. In his inaugural address in 2002, he was the first to challenge the collapse theory of Rapa Nui. He elaborated his ideas in The Survival of Easter Island (CUP, Cambridge, 2015).Gerard A. Persoon is Professor Environment and Development (em.) at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. He has specialized in environmental anthropology, indigenous peoples' rights, and island studies. Most of his work is focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia and the Philippines in particular.

• Introduction - Jan J. Boersema, Gerard A. Persoon, Fanny Wonu Veys;Archaeology; 1. A Keynote Address: Here be Dragons: Archaeological Data, Value Judgements, and Mapping Rapa Nui - Jo Anne van Tilburg;2. The Political Economy of Archaeological Stone on Rapa Nui: Identifying Economic, Ideological, and Socio-Political Interaction in Extreme Isolation - Dale F. Simpson Jr.;3. Contact and Isolation in Rapanui Rock Art: Two Novel Voyaging Canoe Petroglyphs for Rapa Nui - Alexandra Edwards;4. Monumental and Multi-Functional – Geoarchaeological and Archaeological Investigations of the Earthworks of Babeldaob, Palau (Micronesia) - Annette Kühlem, Andreas Mieth, Hans-Rudolf Bork;5. Archaeological Astronomy on Rapa Nui - Dominique Proust, in collaboration with Clotilde Proust; Histories;6. Jacob Roggeveen (1659 – 1729): The Man, his Voyage and Visit to Rapa Nui (Easter Island) - Jan J. Boersema, Roelof van Gelder;7. Notes on the Significance of Walter Knoche's Easter Island Publications - Hermann Mückler;8. The True, the False and the Found - The Use of Sources and Eyewitness Accounts for Life on Easter Island in 1872 - Christian Walter;9. Fauna, Flora and Natural Phenomena in The Rapanui Myths and Legends Compiled by Alfred Métraux - Zuzanna Jakubowska-Vorbrich, Christopher (Krzysztof) Vorbrich;10. Furthering Professor John Macmillan Brown of New Zealand's Connections to Easter Island/Rapa Nui through the Extinct Palm (Jubaea) and the Toromiro Tree (Sophora toromiro) - Rosanne Hawarden;12. Nuku Hiva 1825: Ethnohistory of a Dutch-Marquesan Encounter - Caroline van Santen; Indigeneity and Identity;13. Ancestral Medicines and 'Culture as Treatment' on Rapa Nui - Sonya Petrakovitz;14. Twenty-Five Years on Rapa Nui, Tracing the Road to Self-Determination - Riet Delsing;15. Barkcloth Figures and Body Art: An Iconography of Miru Identity - Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Cristián Arévalo Pakarati, with Adrienne L. Kaeppler†;16. System Rapa Nui – Combining Space and Place - Paolo Tombesi; Education;17. Physical and Symbolic Violence in Education in the Mid-Twentieth Century in Rapa Nui. Ethnographic Evidence in the Notes of Lorenzo Baeza - Javier Corvalán;18. Education in Rapa Nui: Decolonization, Reparation and Imagination - Camila Zurob Dreckmann; Museum and Collections Research;19. Legacies to Be Revealed - Tania Basterrica Brockman, Betty Haoa Rapahango;20. The Production of Obsidian Moai Eyes: New Geochemical Sourcing Data on Legacy Artifact Collections on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) - Mara A. Mulrooney, Mark D. McCoy;21. Three-Dimensional Modelling of Rapanui Cave Stones from the Collection of the Kon-Tiki Museum - Reidar Solsvik, Paul Horley;22. Ka Haka Hoki Mai Te Mana Tupuna. The Repatriation Movement in Rapa Nui - Jacinta Arthur-de la Maza;23. Repatriate, Repair and Reconcile…Can Sharing Feelings Help Us Understand and Move Forward? The Round Table Discussion on Repatriation in Leiden 2022 - Olaug Røsvik Andreassen; Roŋoroŋo;24. Shipwrecks, Drift Voyages and Roŋoroŋo: The Shipwreck of the Essex and the Invention of Roŋoroŋo-Writing on Easter Island - Christian Walter;25. New Analysis of the Berlin Tablet VI 4878 and Experimental Study Of Roŋoroŋo Carving Techniques - Rafal Wieczorek, Paul Horley;26. Children's Initiation Rites as Context for the Roŋoroŋo Inscriptions of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) - Mary de Laat;27. Easter Island Fifty Years Ago and Ways of Getting Food - Julia McCall;28. Putting on a Pukao, or How to Lift a Stone Hat onto a Statue - Pavel Pavel

Fanny Wonu Veys is curator Oceania at the Wereldmuseum and holds the chair Art and Material Culture of Oceania at Leiden University. She has curated Treasures from the depot: Easter Island (2022-2027) and is particularly interested in the significance of historical objects in a contemporary setting.Jan J. Boersema holds the chair Principles of Environmental Sciences at Leiden University. In his inaugural address in 2002, he was the first to challenge the collapse theory of Rapa Nui. He elaborated his ideas in The Survival of Easter Island (CUP, Cambridge, 2015).Gerard A. Persoon is Professor Environment and Development (em.) at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. He has specialized in environmental anthropology, indigenous peoples' rights, and island studies. Most of his work is focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia and the Philippines in particular.

• Introduction - Jan J. Boersema, Gerard A. Persoon, Fanny Wonu Veys;Archaeology; 1. A Keynote Address: Here be Dragons: Archaeological Data, Value Judgements, and Mapping Rapa Nui - Jo Anne van Tilburg;2. The Political Economy of Archaeological Stone on Rapa Nui: Identifying Economic, Ideological, and Socio-Political Interaction in Extreme Isolation - Dale F. Simpson Jr.;3. Contact and Isolation in Rapanui Rock Art: Two Novel Voyaging Canoe Petroglyphs for Rapa Nui - Alexandra Edwards;4. Monumental and Multi-Functional – Geoarchaeological and Archaeological Investigations of the Earthworks of Babeldaob, Palau (Micronesia) - Annette Kühlem, Andreas Mieth, Hans-Rudolf Bork;5. Archaeological Astronomy on Rapa Nui - Dominique Proust, in collaboration with Clotilde Proust; Histories;6. Jacob Roggeveen (1659 – 1729): The Man, his Voyage and Visit to Rapa Nui (Easter Island) - Jan J. Boersema, Roelof van Gelder;7. Notes on the Significance of Walter Knoche's Easter Island Publications - Hermann Mückler;8. The True, the False and the Found - The Use of Sources and Eyewitness Accounts for Life on Easter Island in 1872 - Christian Walter;9. Fauna, Flora and Natural Phenomena in The Rapanui Myths and Legends Compiled by Alfred Métraux - Zuzanna Jakubowska-Vorbrich, Christopher (Krzysztof) Vorbrich;10. Furthering Professor John Macmillan Brown of New Zealand's Connections to Easter Island/Rapa Nui through the Extinct Palm (Jubaea) and the Toromiro Tree (Sophora toromiro) - Rosanne Hawarden;12. Nuku Hiva 1825: Ethnohistory of a Dutch-Marquesan Encounter - Caroline van Santen; Indigeneity and Identity;13. Ancestral Medicines and 'Culture as Treatment' on Rapa Nui - Sonya Petrakovitz;14. Twenty-Five Years on Rapa Nui, Tracing the Road to Self-Determination - Riet Delsing;15. Barkcloth Figures and Body Art: An Iconography of Miru Identity - Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Cristián Arévalo Pakarati, with Adrienne L. Kaeppler†;16. System Rapa Nui – Combining Space and Place - Paolo Tombesi; Education;17. Physical and Symbolic Violence in Education in the Mid-Twentieth Century in Rapa Nui. Ethnographic Evidence in the Notes of Lorenzo Baeza - Javier Corvalán;18. Education in Rapa Nui: Decolonization, Reparation and Imagination - Camila Zurob Dreckmann; Museum and Collections Research;19. Legacies to Be Revealed - Tania Basterrica Brockman, Betty Haoa Rapahango;20. The Production of Obsidian Moai Eyes: New Geochemical Sourcing Data on Legacy Artifact Collections on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) - Mara A. Mulrooney, Mark D. McCoy;21. Three-Dimensional Modelling of Rapanui Cave Stones from the Collection of the Kon-Tiki Museum - Reidar Solsvik, Paul Horley;22. Ka Haka Hoki Mai Te Mana Tupuna. The Repatriation Movement in Rapa Nui - Jacinta Arthur-de la Maza;23. Repatriate, Repair and Reconcile…Can Sharing Feelings Help Us Understand and Move Forward? The Round Table Discussion on Repatriation in Leiden 2022 - Olaug Røsvik Andreassen; Roŋoroŋo;24. Shipwrecks, Drift Voyages and Roŋoroŋo: The Shipwreck of the Essex and the Invention of Roŋoroŋo-Writing on Easter Island - Christian Walter;25. New Analysis of the Berlin Tablet VI 4878 and Experimental Study Of Roŋoroŋo Carving Techniques - Rafal Wieczorek, Paul Horley;26. Children's Initiation Rites as Context for the Roŋoroŋo Inscriptions of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) - Mary de Laat;27. Easter Island Fifty Years Ago and Ways of Getting Food - Julia McCall;28. Putting on a Pukao, or How to Lift a Stone Hat onto a Statue - Pavel Pavel

Fanny Wonu Veys is curator Oceania at the Wereldmuseum and holds the chair Art and Material Culture of Oceania at Leiden University. She has curated Treasures from the depot: Easter Island (2022-2027) and is particularly interested in the significance of historical objects in a contemporary setting.Jan J. Boersema holds the chair Principles of Environmental Sciences at Leiden University. In his inaugural address in 2002, he was the first to challenge the collapse theory of Rapa Nui. He elaborated his ideas in The Survival of Easter Island (CUP, Cambridge, 2015).Gerard A. Persoon is Professor Environment and Development (em.) at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. He has specialized in environmental anthropology, indigenous peoples' rights, and island studies. Most of his work is focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia and the Philippines in particular.

• Introduction - Jan J. Boersema, Gerard A. Persoon, Fanny Wonu Veys;Archaeology; 1. A Keynote Address: Here be Dragons: Archaeological Data, Value Judgements, and Mapping Rapa Nui - Jo Anne van Tilburg;2. The Political Economy of Archaeological Stone on Rapa Nui: Identifying Economic, Ideological, and Socio-Political Interaction in Extreme Isolation - Dale F. Simpson Jr.;3. Contact and Isolation in Rapanui Rock Art: Two Novel Voyaging Canoe Petroglyphs for Rapa Nui - Alexandra Edwards;4. Monumental and Multi-Functional – Geoarchaeological and Archaeological Investigations of the Earthworks of Babeldaob, Palau (Micronesia) - Annette Kühlem, Andreas Mieth, Hans-Rudolf Bork;5. Archaeological Astronomy on Rapa Nui - Dominique Proust, in collaboration with Clotilde Proust; Histories;6. Jacob Roggeveen (1659 – 1729): The Man, his Voyage and Visit to Rapa Nui (Easter Island) - Jan J. Boersema, Roelof van Gelder;7. Notes on the Significance of Walter Knoche's Easter Island Publications - Hermann Mückler;8. The True, the False and the Found - The Use of Sources and Eyewitness Accounts for Life on Easter Island in 1872 - Christian Walter;9. Fauna, Flora and Natural Phenomena in The Rapanui Myths and Legends Compiled by Alfred Métraux - Zuzanna Jakubowska-Vorbrich, Christopher (Krzysztof) Vorbrich;10. Furthering Professor John Macmillan Brown of New Zealand's Connections to Easter Island/Rapa Nui through the Extinct Palm (Jubaea) and the Toromiro Tree (Sophora toromiro) - Rosanne Hawarden;12. Nuku Hiva 1825: Ethnohistory of a Dutch-Marquesan Encounter - Caroline van Santen; Indigeneity and Identity;13. Ancestral Medicines and 'Culture as Treatment' on Rapa Nui - Sonya Petrakovitz;14. Twenty-Five Years on Rapa Nui, Tracing the Road to Self-Determination - Riet Delsing;15. Barkcloth Figures and Body Art: An Iconography of Miru Identity - Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Cristián Arévalo Pakarati, with Adrienne L. Kaeppler†;16. System Rapa Nui – Combining Space and Place - Paolo Tombesi; Education;17. Physical and Symbolic Violence in Education in the Mid-Twentieth Century in Rapa Nui. Ethnographic Evidence in the Notes of Lorenzo Baeza - Javier Corvalán;18. Education in Rapa Nui: Decolonization, Reparation and Imagination - Camila Zurob Dreckmann; Museum and Collections Research;19. Legacies to Be Revealed - Tania Basterrica Brockman, Betty Haoa Rapahango;20. The Production of Obsidian Moai Eyes: New Geochemical Sourcing Data on Legacy Artifact Collections on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) - Mara A. Mulrooney, Mark D. McCoy;21. Three-Dimensional Modelling of Rapanui Cave Stones from the Collection of the Kon-Tiki Museum - Reidar Solsvik, Paul Horley;22. Ka Haka Hoki Mai Te Mana Tupuna. The Repatriation Movement in Rapa Nui - Jacinta Arthur-de la Maza;23. Repatriate, Repair and Reconcile…Can Sharing Feelings Help Us Understand and Move Forward? The Round Table Discussion on Repatriation in Leiden 2022 - Olaug Røsvik Andreassen; Roŋoroŋo;24. Shipwrecks, Drift Voyages and Roŋoroŋo: The Shipwreck of the Essex and the Invention of Roŋoroŋo-Writing on Easter Island - Christian Walter;25. New Analysis of the Berlin Tablet VI 4878 and Experimental Study Of Roŋoroŋo Carving Techniques - Rafal Wieczorek, Paul Horley;26. Children's Initiation Rites as Context for the Roŋoroŋo Inscriptions of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) - Mary de Laat;27. Easter Island Fifty Years Ago and Ways of Getting Food - Julia McCall;28. Putting on a Pukao, or How to Lift a Stone Hat onto a Statue - Pavel Pavel