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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NUMBER 23 47<br />
Rai<br />
number<br />
(•illustrated<br />
herein)<br />
•97<br />
98<br />
"99<br />
*100<br />
101<br />
Location<br />
II<br />
II<br />
II<br />
II<br />
ivision <strong>of</strong><br />
Numismatics,<br />
National<br />
Museum <strong>of</strong><br />
History and<br />
Technolgy,<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 />
176,089<br />
(no. 2)<br />
48,520<br />
(cat.<br />
248,-<br />
987)<br />
227,555<br />
(cat.<br />
397,-<br />
772)<br />
228,912<br />
(cat.<br />
400,-<br />
073)<br />
244, 937<br />
(cat.<br />
400,-<br />
679)<br />
242915<br />
(cat.<br />
69631)<br />
Acquired<br />
from<br />
Purchased from<br />
H. L. Constenoble,<br />
Agana, Guam<br />
through W. E.<br />
Safford,<br />
Dept. <strong>of</strong><br />
Agriculture<br />
Arnold C.<br />
Mason<br />
through<br />
Gilbert<br />
Corwin. Collected<br />
on<br />
Babelthnop,<br />
Palau Islands<br />
Chief Gaag <strong>of</strong><br />
Rul, <strong>Yap</strong><br />
Mrs. Dewitt C.<br />
Ramsey<br />
Purchased<br />
from H. H.<br />
Kricheldorf,<br />
Stuttgart,<br />
Germany<br />
Tear<br />
acquired Diameter<br />
30 Mar<br />
1908<br />
6 Oct 1959<br />
(1948)<br />
22Jun<br />
1962<br />
7 Nov 1962<br />
20 Dec<br />
1962<br />
Thick- Hole<br />
diameter<br />
61-59 rim 3 10<br />
25.5<br />
58^-8<br />
2.08-<br />
1.83<br />
13.9<br />
(cat.<br />
card<br />
reads<br />
18.4)<br />
18<br />
4 (at 6.5<br />
rim<br />
1.5)<br />
10.2<br />
(at<br />
rim<br />
1.5)<br />
3.5<br />
12<br />
Value at<br />
time <strong>of</strong><br />
acquisition<br />
$25 per ft<br />
or $175<br />
Surface<br />
Stepped only<br />
on one<br />
side, step<br />
begins<br />
6 cm from<br />
rim,<br />
creamy<br />
color,<br />
traces <strong>of</strong><br />
gouging or<br />
filing<br />
One side<br />
flat, light<br />
color,<br />
crystallike<br />
surface<br />
Darkest <strong>of</strong><br />
stones in<br />
coll. Very<br />
thick at<br />
center,<br />
smooth<br />
Stepped,<br />
yellowish<br />
or golden<br />
brown<br />
color,<br />
file marks
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