Is. Discoveries
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At the end of December an expedition headed by Heyerdahl and including a Chilean archaeologist, Mr. Gonzalo Figueroa, reported important finds from Easter Island. Advice was received in Valparaiso from Mr. Figueroa that excavations had uncovered “columnar sculpture” strikingly similar to funeral monuments built by the Incas of ancient Peru, and entirely different to the well known sombre-faced stone images for which the island is famous.
Mr. Figueroa was reported to have given the opinion that the discoveries would tend to prove that pre-Columbian civilisations in South America migrated into the Pacific.
Mr. C. K. Smith, of NG Goldfields staff, with Mrs. Smith, returned to Lae on the January Soochow.