Navigation chart, Micronesia

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"Early Pacific seafarers did not have scientific instruments or conventional European-style maps to voyage to, and settle, the thousands of islands of Micronesia and Polynesia. Instead they used the movement of the sea, the direction of the wind, the position of the sun and stars, and the flight of birds. This is a navigation chart, obtained by Georg Irmer, the Governor of the Marshall Islands from Chief Nalu of Jaluit atoll in 1896. The strips of wood, bound by cane, represent the currents and winds, and the six small, white shells represent islands".

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Early Pacific seafarers See all items with this value

Date Created

2017

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Pitts Rivers Museum, Oxford; Donated by G. Irmer in 1897; PRM 1897.1.2

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