THE KON-TIKI ARGUMENT
Sir,-"Viracocha" and "Doodlebug" have agreed to disagree, and the afgument is apparently closed; but no one seems to have suggested what is to me the most likely explanation.of the difficulty, namely, that both .are right. The main stream of Polynesians must have come from the North-West; but why could not a lesser stream have come from the East? Signs of American influence are obvious on Easter Island, less so on the Marquesas, and still less so on Tonga and other islands further west; and the Maori is certainly not a pure race. Why not admit that several strains have met in the past in the Pacific and combined-as they afe stil]
doing?
J. H.
HARVEY
(Ngongotaha).
(This correspondence is now closed.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 726, 12 June 1953, Page 5
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