Word: polynesian
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...talk at Dunster House Thomas R. A. Davis made it clear that his own voyage across the Pacific did not invalidate "Kon-Tiki" as an anthropological expedition. He said he formed his opinion from his knowledge of the South Pacific waters and the Polynesian tribes...
...trans-Pacific voyage has provided anthropologists with a counter-thesis to the Kon-Tiki theory. By venturing from Peru to the Polynesian Islands by a powerless raft, the Kon-Tiki group attempted to prove that the Polynesians are descendants of the Peruvians. Davis maintains the contrary. He says that there are similarities in culture, but contends that a Polynesian Chief sailed to Peru, perhaps over the same route used by Davis. The chief and his associates traveled along the Peruvian coast, picking up the culture, and transplanted it in Polynesia. This thesis is in almost direct contradiction to the much...
...Welshman and a Polynesian noblewoman, Dr. Davis went to New Zealand when he was eleven. He got his M.D. in 1943, was a house surgeon in Auckland, practiced psychiatry in Dunedin and studied tropical medicine in Sydney before he went back to the Cook Islands with his New Zealand wife. There he found only eight health workers, none of them medical graduates, to care for 16,000 people on 15 islands. scattered over 300,000 square miles of the Pacific...
...Davis has found his maternal ancestors a big help in persuading the islanders to stop spitting and defecating anywhere & everywhere. He has fitted sanitary habits into the complex Polynesian social code. But the people's health, he believes, is inseparably bound up with education and economics. So, while at Harvard, he is going to cram in all the sociology he can. Class President Davis will also, by his past and his presence, contribute something to School of Public Health seminars. Said a member of the staff: "We think Dr. Davis can bring to us as much...
...superlative son of Polynesian (leading money-winning sire of two-year-olds this season) is the second foal of Geisha (a fair-to-middling Vanderbilt mare by the great Discovery). "He doesn't have a nerve in his body, or a drop of temperament," according to Trainer Winfrey. This is one explanation of the Dancer's greatness. Another, Winfrey suspects, is inside the colt's deep chest: "Those lungs may be his greatest asset. At the end of a race he never shows the slightest sign of being winded or tired." Winfrey likens Native Dancer...