Friday, April 17, 1959 University Daily Kansan
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Jeep Logs Miles in Studying Easter Island Statues
During the course of five months, the Thor Heyerdahl expedition put 9,000 miles on the speedometer of a brand-new jeep, helping study the famous Easter Island statues, Carlyle S. Smith, associate professor of sociology and anthropology, said at a SUA forum Thursday.
This record is unusual when it
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Tickets are on sale at the concession stand in the Kansas Union and at the information booth in front of Flint Hall. Tickets will not be sold at the door.
National dishes from 30 countries will be served buffet style at 6 p.m. Saturday in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union.
Tickts for the dinner, which is sponsored by the University of Kansas International Club, are $1.75.
Some of the dishes on the menu include, Austrian Wiener schnitzel, English trifle, Finnish whipping porridge, Guatemalan lengua a la vina-greta, Indian kheara ka raita, Iranian shole-zard, and Greek monsaka.
Sociology Scholarship Given Pratt Student
The $50 Hilden Gibson honorarium for 1959-60 has been awarded to Jeffrey Hadden, Pratt graduate student in sociology.
Hadden, now working on an M.A. degree, will be research assistant to Dr. E. Gordon Ericksen, associate professor of sociology, on a West Indies population study next fall.
The Name's The Same
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is remembered that Easter Island is 14 miles long and 10 miles wide.
"Constant and proper diplomatic relations with the people, priests, and government kept the four expedition archeologists pretty busy." Prof. Smith explained.
The expedition was the first "modern" archeological expedition to go to Easter Island, he said.
"We made it our goal to dispel the mysteries that had surrounded the island's statues and to study the civilizations on other islands in the Pacific," he said.
"For instance, the pictures of the statues before we came were only of the heads sticking out of the ground. The bodies of the statues were buried in the ground," he explained.
The statues were hammered and chipped in a prone position from
Charity Begins at Home
DALLAS, Tex. — (UPI)— R. G. Alexander paid up without argument when his wife's unlicensed dog was picked up by the dog catcher. Alexander is the master of the city pound.
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"It looks like a piece of Western Kansas grassland abandoned in the Pacific." Prof. Smith said.
of ancestor worship and were to be placed on stone foundations beside the sea, Prof. Smith sgid.
a quarry with stone chisels. The expedition put a crew of wood-carvers to work hacking out a statue. After a week of chipping stone, the expedition concluded it must have taken a year to hammer the smaller statues out of the hard stone.
After the statues had been freed from the quarry, they were dragged down the hill and placed upright in holes to finish shaping their backs. It took 180 men on ropes to move a 9-foot statue.
"The work was stopped for some reason, and the holes around the statues were filled with dirt by erosion until only the heads remained above the ground," he explained.
The statues were representative
Prof. Smith said many of the toppled statues on the island were pushed over during inter-tribal warfare.
"It was considered great short
The expedition spent from eight hours to a month on some of the other islands in the area. They also spent a week-long vacation in Tabiti, Prof. Smith said.
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