Re: tupas on Easter Island

The earliest reference to 'kumara' or at least a derivative of 'kumara'
is from an anonymous dictionary of Peruvian words and phrases written
in 1586 where the term 'cumal' is given for the sweet potato, a word
from Chinchasuyo, a regional dialect of the Northern highland group of
Quechua languages.
The very first contact between Europeans and Polynesians was when
Mendana's expedition encountered the Marquesas in 1595..... It is
certainly difficult to comprehend how words like 'kipu'u' and 'kumara'
have found their way into a Quechua dictionary in 1586 from a
Polynesian source if Polynesia was totally unknown to the Europeans
prior to 1595....
As to how the New Zealand Maori acquired the term 'kumara' in the 14th
century, 150 years before Balboa "discovered" the Pacific ocean is
anyone's guess....

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