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The Bones Chronology: the Western Pacific High Commission file on the Gardner Island bones, 1940–1941 (including D. W. Hoodless's report of 4 April 1941)

David W. Hoodless, Western Pacific High Commission, 1941. WPHC file, Fiji; reproduced by TIGHAR, Earhart Project Research Documents.

The colonial file on the bones, found by TIGHAR researchers in 1998 in the WPHC archives at Hanslope Park, including Hoodless's list of the thirteen bones, his measurements, and his conclusion that they were a male of European or mixed ancestry about 5 feet 5 inches tall.

MYS0CYPMFQR4AWT · mystery · click to copyMDisappearance of Amelia EarhartManuscriptCopy of The Gardner Island bones (thirteen bones and a skull)Checked against the original0

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The only record of the bones' measurements, on which every later analysis depends.

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Hoodless, D. W., & Western Pacific High Commission (1941). The Bones Chronology: the Western Pacific High Commission file on the Gardner Island bones, 1940–1941 (including D. W. Hoodless's report of 4 April 1941). WPHC file, Fiji; reproduced by TIGHAR, Earhart Project Research Documents. https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Bones_Chronology.html
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