The Stone Money of Yap - Smithsonian Institution
The Stone Money of Yap - Smithsonian Institution
The Stone Money of Yap - Smithsonian Institution
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46 SMITHSONIAN STUDIES IN HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY<br />
Rai<br />
number<br />
(•illustrated<br />
herein)<br />
93<br />
"94<br />
95<br />
96<br />
Location<br />
<strong>The</strong> University<br />
Museum, U.<br />
<strong>of</strong> Pennsylvania,Philadelphia<br />
Ripley's<br />
"Believe It or<br />
Not" Museum<br />
St. Augustine,<br />
Fla.<br />
Department <strong>of</strong><br />
Anthropology,<br />
National<br />
Museum <strong>of</strong><br />
Natural<br />
History,<br />
<strong>Smithsonian</strong><br />
<strong>Institution</strong>,<br />
Washington,<br />
D.C.<br />
See footnotes at end <strong>of</strong> table.<br />
TABLE.—Rai exported from Tap—Continued<br />
[Measurements in centimeters unless indicated otherwise]<br />
Accessions<br />
number<br />
PI 743<br />
PI 744<br />
176,089<br />
(no. 1)<br />
Acquired<br />
from<br />
Gift <strong>of</strong><br />
Dr. William<br />
Furness<br />
On loan from<br />
Grover<br />
Criswell <strong>of</strong><br />
Citra, Fla.<br />
who acquired<br />
it from A.<br />
Roboman <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Yap</strong>. "Said to<br />
come from<br />
stone bank at<br />
Balabat (sic)"<br />
Not recorded<br />
Tear<br />
acquired<br />
1904<br />
collected<br />
1903<br />
1964<br />
5 Jan 1897<br />
Diameter<br />
6 cm<br />
1%<br />
(49.5<br />
cm)<br />
7K ft<br />
(228.4<br />
cm)<br />
Thickness<br />
58-56 rim 3 10<br />
Hole<br />
diameter<br />
Value at<br />
time <strong>of</strong><br />
acquisition<br />
Furness<br />
said: "a<br />
good pig<br />
worth<br />
stone <strong>of</strong><br />
about 19<br />
inches".<br />
Valued by<br />
Museum,<br />
1970 at<br />
$2,000,<br />
1967 at<br />
$1,000<br />
Cost paid<br />
in 1964,<br />
"several<br />
hundred<br />
dollars"<br />
Surface<br />
Dull finish,<br />
gouge marks<br />
.5 cm<br />
wide,<br />
piece<br />
broken<br />
and<br />
repaired
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