RARE ANTIQUE 1950 KON-TIKI POLYNESIA EASTER ISLAND MUSEUM COMMEMORATIVE BOWL

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RARE ANTIQUE 1950 KON-TIKI POLYNESIA EASTER ISLAND MUSEUM COMMEMORATIVE BOWL:
$88.00

ANTIQUE 1950 KON-TIKI RAFT POLYNESIA Easter ISLAND MUSEUM METAL COMMEMORATIVE 5.25 INCH WIDE BOWL THOR HEYERDAHL EXCELLENT CONDITION / VERY HARD TO FIND MUSEUM COMMEMORATIVE ALUMINUM METAL BOWL / ... Thor Heyerdahl\'s book about his experience became a bestseller. It was published in Norwegian in 1948 as The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas, later reprinted as Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft. It appeared with great success in English in 1950, also in many other languages. A documentary motion picture about the expedition, also called Kon-Tiki was produced from a write-up and expansion of the crew\'s filmstrip notes and won an Academy Award in 1951. It was directed by Thor Heyerdahl and edited by Olle Nordemar. The voyage was also chronicled in the documentary TV-series The Kon-Tiki Man: The Life and Adventures of Thor Heyerdahl ... / MEASURES 5.25 INCHES WIDE or in DIAMETER / FRONT: DEPICTS THE KON-TIKI RAFT IN HIGH RELIEF FROM THE SURFACE INCLUDNG THE WORDS ~KON-TIKI~ / BACK: MAKERS MARKS READ: ... EIK ... L10 ... H 59 ... TK (Thor Heyerdahl) / BACK INCLUDES ORIGINAL ATTACHED HANGER HARDWARE...This Is The Original Hanger Device...NOT AN AFTER THOUGHT... (So You Can Hang It On The Wall) / TOTAL WEIGHT=OVER ONE (1) POUND / CONVEX-CONCAVE BOWL ...MEASURES 0.50 of an Inch DEEP ... / THIS BOWL WE SUSPECT WAS AN OFFICIAL COMMEMORATIVE FROM THOR HEYERDAHL AND IS FROM THE OSLO SWEDEN MUSEUM... / RECENT FIND FROM AN ESTATE IN LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA / PLEASE SEE 9 PHOTOGRAPHS ABOVE INCLUDING AN ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPH OF THE KON-TIKI RAFT FROM THE BOOK (Not Included-For Copy Only) / EXCELLENT CONDITION / FREE FIRST CLASS SHIPPING WITH TRACKING INCLUDED.KON-TIKIKon-Tiki was the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands. It was named after the Inca sun god, Viracocha, for whom \"Kon-Tiki\" was said to be an old name. Kon-Tiki is also the name of Heyerdahl\'s book; the Academy Award-winning documentary film chronicling his adventures; and the 2012 dramatised feature film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. Although most anthropologists as of 2010 had come to the conclusion they did not, in 2011, new genetic evidence was uncovered by Erik Thorsby that Easter Island inhabitants do have some South American DNA, lending credence to at least some of Heyerdahl\'s theses. His aim in mounting the Kon-Tiki expedition was to show, by using only the materials and technologies available to those people at the time, that there were no technical reasons to prevent them from having done so. Although the expedition carried some modern equipment, such as a radio, watches, charts, sextant, and metal knives, Heyerdahl argued they were incidental to the purpose of proving that the raft itself could make the journey. The Kon-Tiki expedition was funded by private loans, along with donations of equipment from the United States Army. Heyerdahl and a small team went to Peru, where, with the help of dockyard facilities provided by the Peruvian authorities, they constructed the raft out of balsa logs and other native materials in an indigenous style as recorded in illustrations by Spanish conquistadores. The trip began on April 28, 1947. Heyerdahl and five companions sailed the raft for 101 days over 6900 km (4,300 miles) across the Pacific Ocean before smashing into a reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands on August 7, 1947. The crew made successful landfall and all returned safely. Thor Heyerdahl\'s book about his experience became a bestseller. It was published in Norwegian in 1948 as The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas, later reprinted as Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft. It appeared with great success in English in 1950, also in many other languages. A documentary motion picture about the expedition, also called Kon-Tiki was produced from a write-up and expansion of the crew\'s filmstrip notes and won an Academy Award in 1951. It was directed by Thor Heyerdahl and edited by Olle Nordemar. The voyage was also chronicled in the documentary TV-series The Kon-Tiki Man: The Life and Adventures of Thor Heyerdahl, directed by Bengt Jonson.The original Kon-Tiki raft is now on display in the Kon-Tiki Museum in Bygdøy, near Oslo.PLEASE READ MORE AT:--- Heyerdahl (1914-2002) was the expedition leader. He was also the author of the book of the expedition and the narrator of the story. Heyerdahl had studied the ancient people of South America and Polynesia and believed that there was a link between the two.BUY-IT-NOW PAYPAL ONLYIMPORTANT NOTE: PLEASE ASK QUESTIONS AND offer ACCORDINGLY AS THE ITEMS I LIST ARE SOMETIMES OLD AND UNUSUAL AND THERE WILL BE RANDOM FLAWS OR UNKNOWN MARKS AT TIMES SO IF YOU ARE THE TYPE OF PERSON THAT WANTS FLAWLESS ITEMS AND LIKES TO RETURN OR EXCHANGE ITEMS FOR ANY REASON INCLUDING BUYERS REMORSE THEN THIS MIGHT NOT BE THE sale FOR YOU...LOOK AT THE PHOTOGRAPHS...I TOOK PLENTY OF THEM. 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