The Stone Money of Yap - Smithsonian Institution

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p. 132 (HRAF, pp. 228-229), who said "according to tradition
the mbul or mat money was invented to compete with the fa.
When people of Rul and Tamil were able to procure the latter
the west coast villages became jealous and made mat money
which accordingly would be more recent."
220
GIFFORD and GIFFORD, "Archaeological Excavations in
Yap," pp. 198-199.
221
Ibid., p. 193. Gifford states that according to Professor
Francis J. Turner of the Department of Geology, University
of California, the stone may be phosphate.
222
Ibid.
223 Ibid., p. 194.
224 Ibid., p. 193.
225 Ibid., p. 205.
226 Robert Halvorsen, District Administrator, Yap, to Dr.
Saul Riesenberg, Smithsonian Institution, 21 January 1960.
Smithsonian Institution Registrar's file, accession #228,912.
227 D.M. Schneider, Department of Anthropology, University
of California, Berkeley, to Dr. Saul Riesenberg, Smithsonian
Institution, 25 January 1960, Smithsonian Institution Registrar's
file, accession #228,912.
228 KUBARY, "Uber das einheimische Geld," p. 27. DE
BEAUCLAIR, "Stone Money of Yap," p. 151, points to the
similarity of the Chinese jade disc pi.
229 MULLER, Yap, p. 129 (HRAF, p. 222), pi. 36, no. 5.
230 FURNESS, Island of Stone Money, p. 61, and MATSUMURA,
"Contributions to the Ethnography of Micronesia," p. 107.
231 HUNT, et al., Micronesians of Yap, p. 36, table 1.