WHAT LIES BENEATH: UNCOVERING ANCIENT TREASURES OF POLYNESIA

Photos courtesy of Yosihiko Sinoto

1955

A young Yosihiko Sinoto works at Makalai Cave, an archaeological site at South Point on the Big Island.

1961

Sinoto, right, and longtime colleague Kenneth Emory, at a dig on Maupiti in French Polynesia.

1982

On Huahine, Sinoto excavated planks, a paddle and, seen here, a mast from an ancient canoe.

(Advertiser, 4/9/2006, p. D1)

Honolulu Advertiser. April 9, 2006, p. D1.