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A FRANCO-BELGIAN expedition, initiated by the Institut d'Ethnologie and the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris and supported by the Government and scientific institutions of Belgium, was engaged during 1934–35 in the investigation of the archæology and ethnology of Easter Island. The members of the expedition were Alfred Métraux, Charles Louis Watelin (archæologist), Dr. Henri Levachery of the Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, and Dr. Israel Drapkin, of Chile. Owing to the death of M. Watelin on the outward voyage, the work of archæological investigation fell to Dr. Levachery, and will be the subject of separate treatment.
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Easter Island Origins. Nature 146, 465–466 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146465a0
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