# Hoodless 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)

> David W. Hoodless, Western Pacific High Commission, 1941. 8 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The only record of the bones' measurements, on which…

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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.

**Disappearance of Amelia Earhart** ManuscriptCopy of **[The Gardner Island bones (thirteen bones and a skull)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/artifacts/ART0CYPN3GJ45MR/the-gardner-island-bones-thirteen-bones-and-a-skull)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

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

## Cited by on this site 8 records

[The Gardner Island bones (thirteen bones and a skull)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/artifacts/ART0CYPN3GJ45MR/the-gardner-island-bones-thirteen-bones-and-a-skull)

ART

[The Gardner Island bones (thirteen bones and a skull): transcription](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/copies/CPY0CYPN4FT7K8Q/the-gardner-island-bones-thirteen-bones-and-a-skull)

CPY

[Hoodless's 1941 measurements of the Gardner Island bones](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0CYPN38R3XAX/hoodlesss-1941-measurements-of-the-gardner-island-bones)

Dataset

DAT

[Hoodless's conclusion: male, European or mixed, about 5 ft 5 in.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/evidence/EVD0CYPN0TM45RY/hoodlesss-conclusion-male-european-or-mixed-about-5-ft-5-in)

Evidence

EVD

[Hoodless measures the bones in Suva and judges them male](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/events/EVT0CYPMPJG1272/hoodless-measures-the-bones-in-suva-and-judges-them-male)

EVT

[David W. Hoodless](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/people/FIG0CYPMJ5W0FFG/david-w-hoodless)

FIG

[The disappearance of Amelia Earhart](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart)

The mystery article

MYS

[Whose bones were found on Gardner Island in 1940?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/questions/QST0CYPMTQA45GR/whose-bones-were-found-on-gardner-island-in-1940)

Question

QST

## Cite it

```
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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[Read it free at tighar.org](https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Bones_Chronology.html)

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**SRC** 0CYPMCT04JRA

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Manuscript

Rights

public-domain

Kept

29 Oct 2026

Checked

Against the published original

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