Description: As shown in photos There appears to be natural cracks in the wood on the right side and a long ago repair to the upper left top corner. Some interesting info that I sourced at Smith, DeVerne Reed. "The Palauan Storyboards." Expedition Magazine 18, no. 1 (September, 1975): -. Accessed November 08, 2024. https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/the-palauan-storyboards/ Yap Currency Theme (Balang ra Rebeluulechab). The Yapese came to Palau to mine the limestone for their currency and transported the huge disks a distance of some 250 miles by canoe to Yap. Several thousand pieces of the currency, some as large as 12 feet in diameter, remain in Yap, and pieces of incompletely mined limestone can be seen today in caves near Koror. Most mining occured during the middle of the late 19th century, after European contact. Storyboards use the doughnut-shaped disk as the requiste symbol, and some show decapitated heads to suggest the bloody era in Palauan history during which mining took place. There are two popular storyboard versions of this theme, one showing the canoes en route between Palau (represented by a bai) and Yap (represented by Yapese mens house); the second type of board depicts a group of Yapese pointing to a full moon, the inspiration for the shape of their currency.
Price: 295 USD
Location: Damascus, Oregon
End Time: 2024-12-08T23:00:36.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Provenance: Ownership History Not Available
Country/Region of Manufacture: Palau
Culture: Pacific Islands
Handmade: Yes
