28.
12. 1990
Dear
Mr Plant,
On
a brief visit to Norway I found your letter of 16 November with various
enclosures, for which I thank you.
I
am off to start a new archaeological project in the Canary Islands in a couple
of days before I return to our major site in Tucume, Peru, in February, and as
I find a deluge of mail accumulated here waiting for my answers, I have to be
very brief:
I
have been corresponding with my old friend George Carter about the earliest
breeds of chicken, a problem which has interested me for many years. I have
been unable to throw any new light on the problem, and I have personally never
seen the blue eggs of Easter Island chicken. However, I may now report that
blue-egged chickens are still to be found in the area around the Tucume
pyramids where I personally live in the Lambayeque valley, North Peru. I have
two blue chicken eggs blown out and preserved in my own residence at Tucume,
and blue-egged chickens are locally available for inbreeding and research for
those who are sufficiently interested and able to devote time for such a
project.
With
kind regards.
Yours
sincerely,