Bayard Dominick expedition

The Bayard Dominick expedition was a 1920 scientific expedition to the Pacific islands of Polynesia, with four teams sent to compile archaeological and anthropological surveys of the Marquesas, Tonga, Austral Islands, and Hawaiʻi.^[1][2][3]

The expedition's first year was financed by Bayard Dominick who was a member of the New York Stock Exchange. He gave a gift to Yale University of $40,000 and this was sent on to the Hawaiian museum.^[4] The Tonga team was Edward W. Gifford and William C. McKern both from the University of California and the botanist was Arthur J. Eames from Harvard University. The Marquesas team was Edward S. C. Handy from Harvard and Ralph Linton from the University of Pennsylvania accompanied by the Yale botanist Forest B. H. Brown, and Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Handy as volunteer assistants. The Austral Islands team was John F. G. Stokes (Bishop Museum staff), Robert Thomas Aitken^[5][6] (Columbia University) and volunteer assistant Mrs J. F. G. Stokes. Finally the Hawaiian team was Louis R. Sullivan from Brown University and Kenneth P. Emory from Dartmouth, Harvard.

References

1. Kirch, Patrick Vinton (2002). On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact. University of California Press. ISBN 0520234618.
2. "Bayard Dominic Expedition Resources". Victoria Library Resources. Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
3. "Expeditions of the Bishop Museum". American Association for the Advancement of Science. 52 (1344): 311. October 1, 1920. doi:10.1126/science.52.1344.311. JSTOR 1646589.
4. Te Rangi Hiroa, (Peter Buck), ed. (1945). "The Bayard Dominick Expeditions". An Introduction to Polynesian Anthropology. Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum. p. 45. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
5. Aitken, Robert T. (2008) [Accepted in 1923]. "Mythology of Tubuai". In Furuhashi, Lynette (ed.). Pacific Islands Dissertations and Theses from the University of Hawaiʻi - 1923-2008. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi: Hamilton Library. p. 2.
6. Aitken, Robert T. (1930). "Ethnology of Tubuai". Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 70. Honolulu, Hawaiʻi: Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Retrieved March 9, 2020.