pacific stick charts and maps

[Byron W. Bender]

The only location I am aware of for navigational stick charts is the
Marshall Islands. I recommend looking in the early anthropological
literature on these islands. See especially Winkler, Captain. 1899. On sea
charts formerly used in the Marshall Islands, with notes on the navigation
of these islands in general. Smithsonian Institution, Annual Report.
Washington, D.C., and Krämer, A., and H. Nevermann. 1938. Ralik-Ratak
(Marshall Inseln). Ergebnisse der Südsee Expedition 1908-10 (G. Thilenius,
ed.). Hamburg, pp. 221-226. Also Spoehr, Alexander. 1949. Majuro: A village
in the Marshall Islands. Fieldiana: Anthropology vol. 39. Chicago: Chicago
Natural History Museum, pp. 20-25.
  Incidentally, an image of one such chart is to be found on the cover of
the Marshallese-English dictionary (Abo, Takaji, Byron W. Bender, Alfred
Capelle, and Tony DeBrum. PALI Language Texts: Micronesia. Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press, 1976.

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Editor, Oceanic Linguistics
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