Speaking of the bones and the notations :===
Bones file.
Ballpoint pen under "Other Connected Papers":
R39
B946
I'm sure after twenty years this has been checked out but I will ask as I can't find any info;
could these be the numbers of plots in some graveyards , say two possible places that the bones could have been interred at graveyards that were in use at the same time the ballpen notation was made?
Possibly some plots were somehow made available for bones burial?
I'm the person who made that note.
I observed the numbers on the outside of the
bones file during the
2003 expedition to Fiji and New Zealand. I'm the person who made that page on the wiki.
I asked everyone I could whether they looked like part of a warehouse system. We're looking for two different boxes: the box containing 13 bones and the sextant box that (I presume) had parts of a man's shoe, parts of a woman's shoe, and corks on brass chains in it.
The numbers do not correspond in any way to the
records of burials and cremations studied so thoroughly in 2003 by Roger Kelley.
They do not match any of the
filing systems used by the WPHC. I looked at all of the indexes (or "indices," if you prefer) in the WPHC from 1940 until the system ceased to be used in the 1970s.
I am attached to the idea that they may have had some significance for the bones file when they were written on it, but I'll be darned if I can figure out what that significance was.
I'm responsible for calling them "ball-point" ink. I'm not a qualified document examiner, but I have read a lot of archival material, both from the WPHC and from my work on
the biography of Michael Polanyi, so I consider it an educated guess.
While I'm guessing, I guess that they would not represent burial plots. I would expect someone who wanted to record that information to have included an indication of which cemetery to search for those locations. Only one box would need burial in any event. There would be no need to bury or cremate the sextant box and its contents.