Rongorongo text P

A well-preserved unfluted tablet with a "panhandle", 63 × 15 or 10 × 2 cm, made of Podocarpus latifolius wood (Orliac 2007).

Fischer (1997) believes that the Large Santiago tablet was likely found by Father Roussel in early 1870, perhaps in Taura Renga house at ꞌOrongo.

Jaussen presented this piece to the young Russian anthropologist Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai when the latter visited the Haʻapape Mission from the Vityaz on 24 July 1871.

Since many of these appear on the same lines, Fischer believes one served in part, directly or indirectly, as the model for the others, and that they may have had a common geographic origin.

Fischer reports that several glyphs were traced out with an obsidian flake, without being finished with a shark tooth.