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Thor Heyerdahl 1914-2002 THOR HEYERDAHL 1914-2002 Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation Volume 16 Article 1 Issue 2 October 2002 Thor eH yerdahl 1914-2002 Helene Martinsson-Wallin The Kon-Tiki Museum, Oslo, Norway Paul Wallin The Kon-Tiki Museum, Oslo, Norway Follow this and additional works at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj Part of the History of the Pacific slI ands Commons, and the Pacific slI ands Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation Martinsson-Wallin, Helene and Wallin, Paul (2002) "Thor eyH erdahl 1914-2002," Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation: Vol. 16 : Iss. 2 , Article 1. Available at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj/vol16/iss2/1 This Commentary or Dialogue is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Hawai`i Press at Kahualike. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation by an authorized editor of Kahualike. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Martinsson-Wallin and Wallin: Thor Heyerdahl 1914-2002 THOR HEYERDAHL 1914-2002 Te rnoana nui e [The sea is vast Te pahi iti e The boat is small A hakae tangata "Kon-Tiki" e Brave i the Kon-Tiki man] r. "Kon-Tiki" passed away quietly in his home in Italy and Heyerdahl's book about the voyage became a best eller on the 18th of April 2002, at the age of 87. As one of and was translated into at least 70 language ; it ha sold in S the most famous Norwegians ever, he accomplished many millions of copies all around the world. Thor's fllm many different things in his life, but his name will always be about the voyage was awardea an Oscar for best documentary intimately tied to the Kon-Tiki voyage and the archaeological in 1951. investigations on Rapa Nui and East Polynesia. He was Thor Heyerdahl has always been dedicated to prove hi awarded a state funeral in Oslo on the 26th of April 2002, but theories concerning contact of prehistoric societies with the his final resting place is on the family estate at Colla Micheri aid of traditional boat types. In 1968 he built the reed ship RA in Italy. after models of traditional boat He was born in the small types in Egypt. The goal wa town of Larvik on the 6th of Oc­ to prove that the Old and the tober 1914. As a young boy he New World had prehistoric was intere ted in zoology and contact over the Atlantic biology and had a dream to be­ Ocean. He and his interna­ come an explorer and travel to tional crew crossed the Atlan­ exotic countries far away. After tic Ocean in this vessel, but university studies in biology due to poor construction it dis­ and geography at Oslo univer- integrated just before reaching ity a well as tudies of anthro­ the Caribbean. Then he et his pology in Bjame Kroepelien' mind to make another try. famous Polynesia library in With RA II he set out from 1933-36, he and his young wife Safi in Morocco in 1969 and Liv et out to live on Fatu Hiva came ashore on Barbado 57 in the Marque a archipelago in day later. In 1977 Heyerdahl 1937-38. Thi journey had a constructed still another reed great influence on the rest of his ship. It was built in Iraq and life. Before reaching the Mar­ named Tigris. He sailed with que as he was "adopted" by an international crew during 5 Chief Teri'iro'o on Tahiti, who months in the Persian and Ara­ appropriately gave Thor the bian ea with the goal to end name Te rai rna te ata up in Egypt to prove that the (reflection of the sky). On Fatu great ancient civilizations in Hiva the young couple lived Mesopotamia, the Indus Val­ like Polynesians and experi­ ley and Egypt had contact by enced both good and bad days. sea. Actions of war in the area However, the important experi­ stopped the voyage and in pro­ ence for Thor wa that he saw test Heyerdahl burnt his hip. that plant life, the winds and In addition to his mari­ current , a well as traditional time interests he has also pon­ history, could point so that the sored archaeological research. ancestor or forerunners of the With his investigations on the Polyne ians could have come Galapagos Islands in 1952-53 from the Ea t - South America. Thor Heyerdahl in 1998 and Easter Island in 1955-56 of Pacific Lutheran University) Later he developed thi (courtesy and in 1986-88, he and hi ar- theory in his book " American chaeologists were pioneers in Indian in the Pacific". The cientific community of the time Pacific archaeology. In addition to this he carried out research did not accept his ideas and this i the rea on why he decided on the Maldives in 1983-84, Tucume, Peru in 1989-94, Tene­ to prove this theory in real life. On the 28th of April 1947, he rife in 1991, 1999 and 2000 and in Azov, Russia during 2001 and his five crew members set out from Callao in Peru on the as well a sponsoring research on monuments on Sardinia and Kon-Tiki balsa raft which they build in a traditional style. Sicily. Even during his last days he had far-reaching plan of They drifted 4300 miles during 101 days and ended up on Rar­ an archaeological expedition to Samoa to excavate the largest oia in the Tuamotus archipelago. The voyage was a success ceremonial monument in the Pacific, Pulemelei on Savai'i. Rapa Nui Journal 67 Vol. 16 (2) October 2002 Published by Kahualike, 2002 1 Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation, Vol. 16 [2002], Iss. 2, Art. 1 With several honorary doctorates and other awards as well With his first wife Liv (t), he had two children, Thor Jr., as an extensive production of books, article and fIlms in addi­ and Bj0rn of which the former i the current head of the board tion to his many expedition and travel , he lived a very produc­ of the directors at the Kon-Tiki Mu eum, and the latter i taking tive and fu..l..l life. With hi arti tic and intellectual abilities he care of the family farm in Italy producing olive and wine. has, for example, created such classic books as Kon-Tiki, Aku­ Thor Heyerdahl wa an extraordinary and complex per on Aku The Secrets of Easter Island, which were enjoyed by mil­ in many ways, both controver ial and humble at the arne time. lions of readers all around the world. Furthermore, his scientific He cared very much for the environment and reflected over the papers and books have in variou way in pired a whole genera­ "big issues" in life as well as battling fiercely to prove his theo­ tion of scientists dealing with prehi tory of the Pacific. ries on diffusion and contacts between the great civilizations of The Famous Kon-Tiki raft as well as RA II are housed at the past. the Kon-Tiki Museum in 0 10 which was started by Heyerdahl Now, when he ha et out on his final journey he will be and Knut Haugland (one of the crew on Kon-Tiki) in 1950. greatly missed, not just by family and friend, but also by hi Since 1986 an institute for PacifIc Archaeology and Cultural many readers and admirer, as well a many scholars. History is tied to the Museum a well. Heyerdahl lived his last years on Tenerife, The Canary I land, with his third wife Jac­ Thor, Te Rai rna te ata queline, where he took part in creating a Mu eum and center for Maururu Nui re earch. Heyerdahl lived al 0 in Colla Micheri in Italy, where Helene Martin on-Wallin and Paul Wallin hi life ended. He, and hi econd wife Yvonne, and children Associate Professors The Kon-Tiki Museum, Annette (t), Marian, and Bettina owned and re tored a village Institute for PacifIc Archaeology and Cultural History from the Roman era. 010, Norway Fll-OM TH£ £D'TO\l.~ NEWS OF THOR HEYERDAHl: S DEATH addened us all. He will artists of Rapa Nui who hared their thoughts and experiences be long remembered. It was through his early books, uch a with him. Aku-Aku, that many of u first became fa cinated with Easter I land. We thank Helene Martisson-Wallin and Paul Wallin of ALso IN THIS ISSUE we welcome Andrea Mieth, Han -Rudolf the Kon-Tiki Mu eum for providing an obituary for the Journal Bork and logo Fee er of Okologie-Zentrum, Universitiit Klel. and to Don Ryan for the photograph. Their paper di cusses land use on Poike peninsula and provides a fascinating analysis of the soil and what that can tell us about ONE OF EASTER ISLAND'S "culture-bearers" has died. We are ancient agricultural practice and ettlement of that under- sad to report that Rafael Haoa (1925-2002) passed away in July tudied part of the island. It i probable that soil ero ion rates of this year. Rafael wa in the Armada de Chile for 36 year , were very high from the late 13 th to the early 15 th centuries. The beginning in 1946. Following his retirement, and for the next people of Rapa Nui lost most of their very fertile oils in one twenty years, Rafael worked with many scholar, anthropolo­ century, and not only at Poike but also in the western slope of gists, and writers who studied the Rapanui culture, and was an Rano Raraku.
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