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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, September 25, 1967
Small island guide
South Seas lure KU prof
By Judy Brockman Kansan Staff Reporter
Trips to small islands in the Pacific may be a common occurrence for Carlyle S. Smith, professor of anthropology.
Smith, one of four professional archeologists in a 1956 Norwegian archeological expedition to Easter Island, returned to the island in May.
A guide for Lindblad Travel, Inc., of New York, Smith escorted tour groups through caves, village sites and ceremonial architecture on Easter Island.
"I have been asked to guide another tour in December," Smith said, "and it is possible that I may guide such a tour each fall and spring for the next few years."
The proposed tour will include visits to several islands in the Pacific and covering a distance almost one-half the way around the world.
May lead another tour
Smith's work on Easter Island during his original visit in 1956, however, was not as an archeological guide.
Lindblad Travel, which specializes in off-beat tours for people who think they have been everywhere, has asked Smith to guide a longer tour next summer.
In Heyerdahl's 'Aku-Aku'
Referred to as "Carl" in Thor Heyerdahl's book, "Aku-Aku," Smith was a member of an archeological expedition that did research on eastern Pacific islands.
Their research, later published in two large scientific volumes, included the excavation of two caves and a number of village sites and the study of ceremonial platforms and statues.
"The main contribution was a study of platforms which resulted in a sequence of archeological change." Smith said.
Statues symbolize dead
Statues symbolize dead The statues, averaging 20 to 30 feet high, were carved from stone
Fritz Reidl's tapestry art set for show
A display of tapestries by an Austrian painter and weaver is scheduled to open a series of exhibits at the KU Art Museum Oct. 8.
Reidl visited KU while touring the United States this past summer and was enthusiastic about exhibiting his works here, said Bret Waller, museum director.
Reidl trained as a painter at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and studied with Jean Lucrat in Aubusson, France. A 1948 French tapestry exhibit influenced him in weaving art, he said.
By studying the change in the architecture of the platforms, Smith and his colleagues were able to determine the changes in
Reidl weaves the tapestries himself. His first tapestries were in geometrical designs but his art evolved into a symmetrical style in bright colors.
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Art officials say his creations are much more direct than most French artists who draw sketches and then commission professional weavers to finish the works.
by the natives to symbolize a dead ancestor. The natives then raised the statues onto the ceremonial platforms near the grave site.
architectural style covering a period from 800 A.D. to the 1860's.
Fritz Reidl's 26-work display will include 16 tapestries, 3 sketches and 7 lithographs.
Although Smith now has no plans to do more research on Easter Island, he hopes to interest graduate students in the work.
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