Easter Island: The Rapanui Speech and the Peopling of Southeast Polynesia

by William Churchill

358 pages, Paperback

Published September 26, 2023

About the author

William Churchill, FRAI, AIA, AAG (1859–1920) was an American Polynesian ethnologist and philologist. He was educated at Yale, where he wrote for campus humor magazine The Yale Record. In 1896 he became consul general to Samoa. In 1897 his commission was extended, making him also Consul General to Tonga. In 1902 he began working for New York Sun, where he later became a member of the editorial staff. In 1915, he took a position as research associate in primitive philology at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C.