Show Famous Archeologist To Tell TellOf TellOf TellOf Of Easter Island Expedition Easter Island and the locked ies-locked d secrets wrested from I It by a dauntless group of scientists act will be brought to Moab 1 Museum members at the high I school auditorium March 20 at I 8 p. p m. m in lecture with colored i slides by Edwin Ferdon renowned renown renown- I ed cd archaeologist who was there Information n and membership cards are arc available at the museum museum museum mus mus- eum the Chamber of Commerce and the Moab Blue Print com com- pany Marvel at the Polynesian Island Island Is Island Is- Is land enchantment the legends of its people and the riddle of its marching stone giants whose were fashioned from the red blood-red Interior of a volcano Learn of the cannibals victorious warrior tribes native ceremonial dances and hypnotic tunes Thor Heyerdahl noted scientist pursuing evidence to substantiate substantiate sub sub- his theory that the unidentified unidentified un un- identified Polynesian people had its origin in the Americans led the famed Kon Tiki expedition to Easter Island The amazing voyage of ot days he and his five companions sailed salted the open seas on a a balsa raft such as used in AD A.D. was immortalIzed immortalized immortal immortal- in his modern classic Kon Tiki Borne by wind and currents currents currents cur cur- rents from Peru to Polynesia they proved that Indians Indians' Indiana In In- diana could have r the voyage voy voyage voy age 1000 years be before Core C Columbus lumbus Additional studies and explorations explorations tended to further the val val- val val- of his Ws theory In 1955 Mr Heyerdahl organized and led the Archaeological expedition expedition expo which carried out the first systematic excavations ever undertaken undertaken un un- on Easter Island Rapa Itie and the Islands The adventures of this expedition and its fascinating discoveries are the subject of Aku The Saturday Evening Post featured featured fea fea- featured a serial account of this expedition last September Mr Ferdon an archaeologist on the expedition is now associate associate as as- director of the Museum of International Folk Art Santa SantaFe Fe New Mexico He will lecture and show colored slides of the Easter Island expedition Admission Admission Admission sion will be by Moab Museum membership only |