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In 1995, Feodorova published a third monograph. It contained her attempt at deciphering the two rongorongo tablets in the
Kunstkamera. This work earned Feodorova the Premium of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The monograph presents the full texts and Feodorova's translations of two
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The book examines the history of the population of Easter Island; the ethnogenesis of its inhabitants; and theories about the original ancient civilisation. Feodorova analysed the culture of the indigenous people of
Rapanui including their folklore, language, chanting connected with string games,
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Feodorova has contributed many articles to the international scientific community. Her focus is the ethnography, culture, folklore and language of the inhabitants of Easter Island. She has also written about the inhabitants of other islands of
Polynesia such as Hawaii, New Zealand, Marquises,
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Rapanui culture and in 1988 published her second monograph on the subject. This work includes a basic dictionary of Rapanui language (direct and reverse). It also includes a translation of the 1974 publication of Rapanui text by the
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From 1995, Feodorova was a member of the informal cultural group "The way of the ancestors". The group researched and published the history and the work of the first
Russian round-the-world expedition (1803−1806). As part of the Russian world expedition,
422:(2004) is devoted to the history of the first Catholic Rapanui mission and the relationship of the missionaries to original Rapanui culture. It uses rare archival materials and publications of the Catholic mission, the "Congregation de Sacres Coeurs" (
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In 2001, Feodorova published her attempts at decoding, reading, and translating all the examples of ancient
Rapanui text from museums around the world. This work includes the "Tomenika Tau a Ure" tablet recorded in the manuscript of Francis Mazier.
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Semantics of sculptural and carved images in subjects of the Polynesian collections of Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Russian Academy of Science)" and many other works is unpublished.
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in the "Nadeshda" and J. F. Lisjansky in the "Neva" sailed to the islands of East
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calendar, the single rongorongo text that can be read, contains no calendrical information in
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features of a tattoo and the stone statues. She examined the meaning of funeral braids and carved wooden figures.
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