MARSHALL ISLANDS STICK CHART. DATE: ca. late 19th to early 20th centuries. MATERIAL: Wood and cowrie shell. DIMENSIONS: 2 feet by 1.8 feet. FOUND: Marshall Islands, Micronesia. The education of a ...

The stick charts of the Marshall Islands, in use since they were first ... until a missionary’s report in an 1862 edition of the Nautical Magazine. In the piece, American Protestant missionary ...

The stick charts of the Marshall Islands were first described for a Western audience in an 1862 edition of Nautical magazine by missionary L.H. Gulick. “[The Marshallese] construct rude maps by ...