Tag Archives: katherine routledge
A Forgotten Flight to Easter Island / Jun, 18
I’ve been re-reading Katherine Routledge’s The Mysteries of Easter Island lately. Routledge was a British aristocrat who, with her husband, sailed from England to Easter Island in 1914 to conduct one of the first ethnographic and archaeological surveys of the island. It’s thanks to her that we know as much as we do about the […]
Day 14: Trekking the North Coast / Jul, 04
I spent the morning at the archaelogical museum, which recounts the history of the island in thorough detail through information boards (in Spanish and fairly decent English) and a few dozen artifacts. The most interesting of these are one of the few moai ever found to display female characteristics:
Day 13: The Birdman Cult / Jul, 03
This morning began with me indulging in another Type A, United Statesian fuss. Dario and I had agreed last night to explore the island together in his truck, and I knocked on his door a little after 8 to see if he was there. No answer — which didn’t surprise me, as he said he […]