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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.
- Taken together, the bamboo sticks and cowrie shells constitute an abstract navigational chart of the Marshall Islands region. The stick chart is a map!
- 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 chart. DATE: ca. late 19th to early 20th centuries. MATERIAL: Wood and cowrie shell. DIMENSIONS: 2 feet by 1.8 feet.
- Marshall Island Stick Charts. Kate Wiles explores a unique nautical chart, designed to be understood only by its creator.
- Stick charts used for navigation by the peoples of the Marshall Islands and Micronesia have a strong resemblance to string boards.
- ...lines in the Marshall Islands stick chart showed the direction and flow of the ocean waves, and shells or thick crossings of the sticks represented 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.
- Charts constructed of carefully bound sticks served as memory aids, allowing sailors of the Marshall Islands to navigate between the islands by feel.
