Wolff, Werner

Island of Death, A New Key to Easter Island's Culture Through an Ethno-Psychological Study

New York: J.J. Augustin, 1948.

Hardcover. Very Good in a Good+ dust jacket. 228 pp + [20] (plates), with frontispiece of Easter Island statue tipped in, bibliography, notes, index. Offsetting to endpapers from dust jacket, boards and spine are slightly sunned. Dust jacket has edgewear and chipping. In this study Wolff "demonstrates a striking resemblance between hieroglyphics of Easter Island and those of Egypt in form as well as in meaning. He presents a working hypothesis to detect the meaning of the stone statues and to explain their mode of transportation" (dust jacket).

Item #15025

Price: $25.00