Davina was a graduate student at the University of Santiago and curator of the museum on Easter Island, which was her home. She was the wife of Raoul and mother of Manuel. Her passion was preserving the history of the island.
Biography[]
In 1929, Davina returned to Easter Island from the mainland and was introduced to Indiana Jones by Marcus Brody. Later, Jones showed her a knife with the same birdman motif as her necklace, and she recognized it as belonging to her son Manuel. Returning, she invited Jones to come to meet the Matuans, who kept the secret of the Rongo-rongo tablets. Davina and Raoul, Manuel's father, met with Jones that night and brought him to the Matuan cave housing a cache of tablets. She explained that while the texts were sacred to her people, Jones was worthy enough to learn from them in order to decipher the language and record the history so that it could be shared with the world, and thus bring visitors to the island. With this, she convinced Jones to stay after the main expedition of archaeologists had left.[1]
Davina later helped supervise the raising of a moai statue with the expedition.[1]
Later that year, after learning of Jones' disappearance from Brody, she wrote him back, expressing dismay at his loss, and that the sacred tablets were no longer available for study.[1]