2. At the end of June 1869 Bishop Jaussen on Tahiti received a gift from the inhabitants on Easter Island, in gratitude for having received the new faith from the missionaries. The gift was the rongorongo tablet now know as Tablette Échancrée, the first rongorongo tablet known outside of Easter Island. It was an important event, because it made Bishop Jaussen search for more such tablets, it set the ball rolling.

The tablet in question was wrapped in a 16 meter long thread of braided human hair. I have reason to belive it was female hair, and I perceive the enwrapment to be a sign: The tablet had been made harmless by being enveloped (trapped) in female hair. Female hair is especially potent in neutralizing such powerful mana charges as those embodied in rongorongo tablets. The Bishop was protected.

Hair grows predominantly at the back of the head, at the opposite side of the face (which is in front). When you go forward you face what lies ahead, while the back of your head, covered with hair, cannot see anything. Eyes are in front, hair at the back. The hairy back side is female in character and the front side with eyes is male.