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 ...

A Marshall Islands stick navigation chart is less a literal representation of an area and more of a guide to how waves and currents interact with islands. National Museum of Natural History When ...

Ejit Island in Majuro Atoll. ASIA Pacific Ocean Marshall Islands AUSTRALIA EBEYE, Marshall Islands — Linber Anej waded out in low tide to haul concrete chunks and metal scraps to shore and ...