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- A Micronesian navigational chart from the Marshall Islands, made of wood, sennit fiber and cowrie shells. Stick chart in Überseemuseum Bremen.
- 1862 – Marshall Islands Stick Charts. These physical visualizations show ocean swell patterns, and were built by native Micronesians from the Marshall Islands...
- marshall-islands-stick-charts-7. A stick chart displayed in the UK’s Science Museum. It’s 69 centimeters square and made of the midribs of palm fronds.
- Taken together, the bamboo sticks and cowrie shells constitute an abstract navigational chart of the Marshall Islands region. The stick chart is a map!
- Until WWII, stick charts were "used by the Marshallese to navigate the Pacific Ocean by canoe off the coast of the Marshall Islands."
- Marshall Island Stick Charts. Kate Wiles explores a unique nautical chart, designed to be understood only by its creator.
- stick_chart_marshall_islands_-_pacific_collection_-_peabody_museum_harvard_university_-_dsc05729.
- It is no surprise that amid the onslaught of American culture on these islands the meaning of the Marshall Island’s stick chart has faded.
- Stick charts used for navigation by the peoples of the Marshall Islands and Micronesia have a strong resemblance to string boards.
