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44 SMITHSONIAN STUDIES IN HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY Rai number (•illustrated herein) 81 82 •83 •84 •85 Location a Museum of Kn428 Science, Buffalo, New York The Robert H. 11-32430 Lowie Museum of Anthropology, U. of California, Berkeley See footnotes at end of table. it n TABLE.—Rai exported from Tap—Continued [Measurements in centimeters unless indicated otherwise] Accessions number 1973.14 11-32743 11-32750 Acquired from Gift of Theo. J. Fabik, Rear Admiral, Coast Guard Ret. Presented to donor by Yapese Chief at commissioning of U.S. Loran C Station on Yap, 11 Sep, 1964 Knox Collection Collected by E. W. Gifford during archaeological investigations in Micronesia.Obtained 21 May 1956, from Ada Ariadna and Alexander A. Tretnoff, Rul, Yap Collected by E. W. Gifford from A. J. Roboman, Tomil, Yap, 15 May 1956 Collected by E. W. Gifford from Kent R. Groote, 19 May 1956 Tear acquired 1973 (1964) Prior to 1936 1956 1956 1956 Diameter 44.5 21-16^ in (53.5- 42 cm) 24.8 37.7 27.1 Thickness 80 mm 5 in (13 cm) 5.6 5.3 5.3 Hole diameter 7 9 in (23 cm) 5.2 7.7 3.8 Value at time of acquisition - Surface (note d) Incised, spokelike lines Fairly smooth, sharp edged hole "Palau made piece"
NUMBER 23 Rai number (•illustrated herein) •86 87 (87a) •88 89 90 91 92 Location The Chase Manhattan Bank Money Museum, New York City // n The National Bank of Detroit, Michigan World Heritage Museum, U. of Illinois, Urbana, 111. National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. n See footnotes at end of table. TABLE.—Rai exported from Tap—Continued [Measurements in centimeters unless indicated otherwise] Accessions number _ (note e) - - Acquired from Purchased from Staadiche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz Museum fur Volkerkunde, Berlin a Purchased from Mr. Pong, Bugol village, Tomil, Yap Gift of Andrew Roboman, Yap Purchased from sources on Yap. Stone from Neff village. Obtained by staff member David Boyer through offices of District Administrator, Yap Collected by Museum Expedition headed by Schneider, Stevens, Kidder and Hunt n Tear acquired 1931 1960 a Mar 1965 1967 1948 a Diameter 30-29 in (76.2- 73.7 cm) 12 in (30.5 cm) 5 ft (about 152.3 cm) 18 in (45.7 cm) 5 ft 11 in (180.3 cm) 7-5^ in (17.8- 14 cm) 9!4-83/8in (23.5- 21.3 cm) Thickness Kin (1.3 cm) 1% in (2.9 cm) Hole diameter Vs in (1.5 cm) 1% in (3.5 cm) Value at time of acquisition Author asked not to cite price paid 7^ in 10 in $25 per ft Rough (17.8-- (25.4 or $125 10.2 cm) (T.T. court cm) records) a $3.75 per inch or $266.25 - Surface 45 Rough, weathered Broken "Fragment of larger stone"
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