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EASTER ISLAND, so called because of its discovery by the Dutchman Roggeween on Easter Day, 1722, presents several as yet unanswered problems in ethnology and linguistics. One of these is the provenance of the gigantic stone statues found in the island, another the decipherment of the singular incised tablets which appear to show a form of writing or hieroglyph, though written characters are found nowhere else east of Java. A third problem, the origin and settlement of the present population, or rather of the generation which is now so rapidly passinrr-is less difficult, and is that which Mr. Churchill has set himself the task of investigating in the present volume.
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âœEaster Island. The Rapanui Speech and the Peopling of South-east Polynesia.â By William Churchill . Pp. iv+340. (Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1912.)
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RAY, S. The Ultima Thule of Polynesia 1 . Nature 91, 610–611 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091610b0
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