A small cosmetic jar was found on a small uninhabited island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati. Rosella Lorenzi of Fox News reports that “Found broken in five pieces, the ointment pot was collected on Nikumaroro Island by researchers of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), which has long been investigating the last, fateful flight taken by Earhart 75 years ago. When reassembled, the glass fragments make up a nearly complete jar identical in shape to the ones used by Dr. C. H Berry’s Freckle Ointment. The ointment was marketed in the early 20th century as a concoction guaranteed to make freckles fade.”
Earhart was known to have sought remedies for her freckles, which she saw as unattractive.
The jar shows evidence of possible being used to boil water. She may have done this in order to m ake it drinkable. Researchers are still scouting the area in hopes of finding new evidence that may answer the question of what happened to misfortunate aviator.
