Fiji Ancient History
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Research by American Professor
PROFESSOR E. W. Gifford, of the University of California, is to visit Fiji early next year to undertake archaeological reconnaissance and exca vation.
He conducted anthropological studies in Tonga in 1920-21, and published a series of papers on this research. He is interested in problems of Polynesian cultural and racial origins, and intends to seek, by archaeological research in Fiji, to determine whether or not the archipelago was the rallying ground of the Polynesians’ ancestors before they entered Polynesia proper.