MYSTERY SOLVED?

Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20286, 11 April 1938, Page 3

MYSTERY SOLVED?

EASTER ISLAND TABLETS.

CLAIM BY PROFESSOR.

RESULT OF RESEARCH.

LBy Telegraph.—Press As&oeiauoiiJ aUCKLAinD, April 11.

The claim that he has solved the riddle of Easter Island and Ci,u i«au the script on the wooden tablets founu there was made by Dr. Carl Tauber,

a retired professor of anthropology of the University of. Zurich, Switzerland, who is a passenger on the luxury liner Reliance.

Dr. Taube rsaid he made the discovery while pursuing anthropological research among the Chippewa Indians in North America. Ho found the cluo

to the interpretation or one of the tablets, and from that stage went ahead with the research, the results of which will be released in a paper to. be read before the Societie dc Oceaniste in Paris a few months hence. His discovery is only six months old. Dr. Tauber claims that the background of the island's history is Melanesian, and it shows much' older culture th'an the Polynesian tablets. It tells the legendary history of the greatest seafarers of the Melanesian race. In his opinion the Melanesians had come from Melanesia to New Zealand and had gone thence to Tahiti and possibly to the Marquessas Islands. Only the keenest seafarers had got as far as Easter Island and the tablets told of their rovings.