Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1966Vol. 37, No. 11

Those Polynesian

p. 91 · Read in the full issue

Page 9191

Migrations

Anthropologists from Hono lulu's Bishop Museum put forward the view at the recent 11th Pacific Congress in Tokyo that the Polynesian inhabitants of both New Zealand and Hawaii came from the Mar quesas and Society Islands of French Polynesia.

Mr. Yoshiko Sinoto said migration from Eastern Poly nesia began in the Marquesas with several waves spreading out to the Society Islands, New Zealand, Easter Island and Hawaii.

“New Zealand seems to have been hit twice from the Mar quesas, once via the Society Islands indirectly and later directly,” he added.

Dr. Kenneth Emory expressed similar views.

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