Eyles Jim

Jim Eyles 1926-2004

James Roy Eyles

See his posthumous autobiography: Wairau Bar moa hunter, The Jim Eyles story, 2007, River Press.

Blurb from Page and Blackmore Website:

The discovery of the ancient Moa-hunter burial sites at Wairau Bar in 1939 provided a new benchmark for archaeologists, ethnologists and anthropologists seeking to understand whose were the first footprints on New Zealand shores.This is the autobiography of the man who found those burial sites as a 13 year old boy and spent the rest of his life exploring and discovering what lies under the soil.Descended from Tory Channel whaler Jimmy Jackson, Jim Eyles was brought up at Wairau Bar. He worked for the Canterbury Museum and was director of the Nelson Museum and the West Coast Museum.

See Wairau Bar for further information.

Obituary: Prickett, K. 2005 Archaeology in New Zealand 48(2):90-92.

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