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The Significance of Marshallese Stick Charts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

George W. Playdon
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Abstract

The stick charts found in the Marshall Islands, of which some 20 or 30 are extant in museums throughout the world, have for long puzzled historians of navigation. In this paper, which is based on a more complete work, to be published elsewhere, the author examines the authenticity and meaning of these objects and concludes that they were mnemonic devices, of no great antiquity, to facilitate navigation and to train navigators.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , April 1967 , pp. 155 - 166
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1967

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