19th
December, 1983
Dear
Mr Plant,
My
apologies for a slow reply to yours of the 4th.
Nothing
new has come up regarding the chicken bone on Watom Island. It was a leg bone.
Unfortunately it is not easily accessible for measurement.
I
must confess that I have not made a conscious effort to keep up with recent
finds of chicken bones in the Pacific. It would take several weeks of library
research to do so. Have you contacts with Professor C.W. Higham, Department of
Anthropology, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, N.Z.? He may be able
to assist you.
With
best wishes.
Yours
sincerely,
Jim
Specht
Divisional Head, Anthropology.