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  • DNA Shoots Hole in Captain Cook Arrow Legend

    04/29/2004 7:55:42 AM PDT · by Pharmboy · 7 replies · 401+ views
    Reuters via My Yahoo! ^ | Thu Apr 29, 2004 | Reuters Aussie Stringer
    SYDNEY (Reuters) - It was a great legend while it lasted, but DNA testing has finally ended a century-old story of the Hawaiian arrow carved from the bone of British explorer Captain James Cook who died in the Sandwich Islands in 1779. "There is no Cook in the Australian Museum," museum collection manager Jude Philp said on Thursday in announcing the DNA evidence that the arrow was not made from Cook's bone. But that will not stop the museum from continuing to display the arrow in its exhibition, "Uncovered: Treasures of the Australian Museum," which does include a feather cape...