Kon-Tiki 60th Anniversary
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Mahalo to Tiki Chris for reminding me that today is the 60th anniversary of the start of Thor Heyerdahl's epic voyage from Peru to Polynesia on a balsawood raft, named the Kon-Tiki. His theories regarding the East-to-West migration of South Americans to the South Pacific may have been disproven by modern DNA analysis, but the best-selling book and Oscar-winning documentary of Heyerdahl's journey was largely responsible for launching the tiki craze of the 50s and 60s, along with a whole host of knock-off products like the board game pictured above.
[Link: South Seas Cinema: Kon-Tiki]
Previous Heyerdahl Links at Eye of the Goof:
[Link: Sunday Tiki Worship]
[Link: At Play In the Fields of the Moai]