Rongorongo text Y

The glyphs that remain, though crudely carved with a steel blade, are in excellent condition, except in the center of the bottom piece where they have been worn down.

Although the provenance for this object is not good, and being cut with a steel blade makes it suspect, both Métraux and Barthel believed it to be undoubtedly genuine.

It was sold to the Musée de I'Homme in December 1961 by one Henry Reichlen, who had acquired it from a French family who had owned it for several generations — eighty years, by their count.

The snuffbox has the repeated 380.1 glyph found on half a dozen other tablets which suggests it contains a list.

Except for the front and back, which share a line cut lengthwise, the original relationship of the sections is not known.