The Stone Money of Yap - Smithsonian Institution

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39 SENFFT, "Ethnographische Beitrage, p. 58 (HRAF p. 24).
40 KOTZEBUE, Voyage of Discovery, p. 205.
41
TETENS and KUBARY, "Die Carolineninsel Yap," p. 126
(HRAF, p. 58).
42
LESSA, "Evaluation of Early Descriptions," p. 362.
43
KOTZEBUE, Voyage of Discovery, p. 193.
44
Ibid., p. 183.
45
Ibid., pp. 193-194.
46
SPOEHR, White Falcon, p. 72.
47
MULLER, Tap, p. 27 (HRAF, p. 47). Muller was quoting
Kubary.
48
SENFFT, "Ethnographische Beitrage," p. 57 (HRAF, p. 21).
49 TETENS and KUBARY, "Die Carolineninsel Yap," p. 127
(HRAF, p. 59), mention the schooner Dash from Boston,
which visited Yap in 1834, and the full-rigged ship Ebba Brahe,
which was stranded there in 1864. CHEYNE, Description of
Islands, p. 154, tells of the two Manila ships that were attacked
by the Yapese in 1836.
50 TETENS, Among the Savages of the South Seas, pp. 6-8, and
SEMPER, Die Palau-Inseln im stillen Ocean, pp. 42, 255.
51 KUBARY, "Uber das einheimische Geld," p. 4.
52 UNITED STATES NAVY, Civil Affairs Handbook, p. 28.
53 BUTRON Y DE LA SERNA, Memoria sobre las Islas Carolinas,
p. 24.
54
SPOEHR, White Falcon, p. 47; UNITED STATES NAVY, Civil
Affairs Handbook, p. 28.
"LEHUNTE, "Report of HMS Espiegle to Sir G. W. Des
Voeux, Acting High Commissioner for the Western Pacific,"
p. 28. Loaned to the author by Dr. Saul Riesenberg, Smithsonian
Institution, who copied the manuscript from Professor
Harry Maude, retired, Department of Pacific History, Australian
National University.
56
UNITED STATES NAVY, Civil Affairs Handbook, p. 28.
57
"Die Entwickelung der Deutschen Interessen in der
Siidsee," pp. 367—374.
58
UNITED STATES NAVY, Civil Affairs Handbook, p. 28.
59
BUTRON Y DE LA SSSRNA, Memoria sobre las Islas Carolinas,
p. 3, and MARENCO, La ficcion y la Verdad de lo ocurrido en Tap,
p. 120.
60
LEHUNTE, "Report of HMS Espiegle, p. 25.
61
Ibid., p. 30.
62
Ibid., pp. 27-28.
63
MATSUMURA, "Contributions to the Ethnography of
Micronesia," p. 164. The second American mentioned may
have been a Mr. Holcomb, proprietor of the Bartola, who was
mentioned by BUTRON Y DE LA S£RNA, Memoria sobre las Isles
Carolinas, p. 25.
64
CHRISTIAN, Caroline Islands, p. 51.
65 "Walter Charlton Hartridge."
68 O'KEEFE, "Last Will and Testament."
67 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, BUREAU OF
THE CENSUS, Historical Statistics of the United States, p. 91.
68 SUTLIVE, "Savannah Man was King," p. 5, and Deeken,
Die Karolinen, p. 55.
69 HOBBS, Cruises Along By-Ways of the Pacific, p. 86. This
expedition had a grant from the Honorable Chase S. Osborn,
one time Governor of Michigan and regent of the University
of Michigan. It was supported by the Navy Departments of
the United States and of Japan, and sailed under the auspices
of the University of Michigan.
70 EINZIG, Primitive Money, p. 393.
71 UNITED STATES NAVY, Civil Affairs Handbook, p. 24, and
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, PEABODY MUSEUM, "The Micronesians
of Yap," p. 219.
72 MULLER, Tap, p. 129 (HRAF, p. 222).
73 DE BEAUCLAIR, "Stone Money of Yap," p. 153.
74 Robert Halvorsen, District Administrator, Yap, to Saul
Riesenberg, Smithsonian Institution, 10 December 1959,
Smithsonian Institution Registrar's file, accession #228,912,
catalog #400,073. DE BEAUCLAIR, "Stone Money of Yap." p.
153, says that Yapese believe it is "derived from the Ulithian
word for sexual intercourse." Defngin, "The Rai of Yap," p. 17,
says that/i?« orffey is Ulithian in origin and refers to the reproductive
functions. He adds, "When the first discus-shaped piece
of stone was quarried, the Ulithian in the group stated that the
word fee meant full moon, the obvious shape of the piece of
stone."
75
TETENS and KUBARY, "Die Carolineninsel Yap," p. 93
(HRAF, p. 222).
76
ROBERTSON, "Caroline Islands," p. 48.
77
SENFFT, "Ethnographische Beitrage," p. 83 (HRAF, p. 29).
The definition of a span as the stretch of the index finger and
thumb was given by FURNESS, Island of Stone Money, p. 96.
78
KUBARY, "Uber das einheimische Geld," p. 5.
79
MULLER, Tap, p. 249 (HRAF, p. 418).
80
SENFFT, "Ethnographische Beitrage," p. 50 (HRAF, p. 4).
81
MULLER, Yap, p. 129 (HRAF, p. 224).
82
Robert Halvorsen, District Administrator, Yap, to Saul
Riesenberg, Smithsonian Institution, 21 January 1960, Smithsonian
Institution Registrar's file, accession #228,912, catalog
#400,073.
83
TETENS and KUBARY, "Die Carolineninsel Yap," p. 93
(HRAF, p. 18).
84
LEHUNTE, "Report of HMS Espiegle;' p. 25.
85
SWANSTON, "Journals 1857-1866, 1874-1885," p. 8.
Loaned to the author by Dr. Saul Riesenberg.
86
ESCUDE Y BARTOLI, Las Carolinas, p. 79.
87
BUTRON V DE LA SERNA, Memoria sobre las Islas Carolines,
p. 42.
88
MIKLUOHO-MACLAY, "Die Insel Wuap," pp. 40-45.
89 CHRISTIAN, Caroline Islands, p. 236.
90 FINSCH, Carolinen und Marianen p. 49.
91 VOLKENS, "Uber die Karolinen-Insel Yap," p. 74 (HRAF,
p. 14).
92
SALESIUS, Die Karolinen-Insel Jap, p. 95 (HRAF, p. 103).
93
LUTJE, Beitrag zu einer Landeskunde des Karolinen-Archipels,
p. 103.
94
See Table, rai numbers 128-142, Hans Schulman pieces
offered for auction.
9
= MATSUMURA, "Contributions to the Ethnography of
Micronesia," p. 162.
oo SALESIUS, Die Karolinen-Insel Jap, p. 96 (HRAF, pp.
103-104).
97
FINSCH, Carolinen und Marianen, p. 49.
98
MULLER, Tap, p. 131 (HRAF, p. 227).
99
Ibid.
100
ROBERTSON, "Caroline Islands," p. 49.
ioi MULLER, Tap, p. 131 (HRAF, p. 227).
102
Francis Defngin, Office of the District Administrator,
Yap, "History of Stone," Smithsonian Institution Registrar's
file, accession #228,912, catalog #400,073.
103 DE BEAUCLAIR, "Stone Money of Yap," p. 153.
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