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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48 SMITHSONIAN STUDIES IN HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY<br />
Rai<br />
number<br />
(•illustrated<br />
herein)<br />
103<br />
104<br />
105<br />
106<br />
Location<br />
it<br />
Thomas Burke<br />
Memorial<br />
Washington<br />
State<br />
Museum,<br />
Washington,<br />
University <strong>of</strong><br />
Seattle<br />
See footnotes at end <strong>of</strong> table.<br />
it<br />
TABLE.—Rai exported from Tap—Continued<br />
[Measurements in centimeters unless indicated otherwise]<br />
Accessions<br />
number<br />
303400<br />
(cat.<br />
72.-<br />
172.1)<br />
4.13841<br />
4.13842<br />
4.13843<br />
Acquired<br />
from<br />
Col. William C.<br />
Moore,<br />
Arlington,<br />
Va. Item<br />
from central<br />
depositories<br />
on <strong>Yap</strong>.<br />
Given by<br />
chief to<br />
Douglas<br />
Xiques <strong>of</strong><br />
Guam, 1967,<br />
then to a<br />
Major<br />
Raymond E.<br />
Sullivan and<br />
finally to Col.<br />
Moore<br />
Gift <strong>of</strong> Shig<br />
Kaneshiro,<br />
then a Trust<br />
Territory<br />
Government<br />
employee.<br />
Collected by<br />
Douglas<br />
Osborne for<br />
the museum<br />
Gift <strong>of</strong> Shig<br />
Kaneshiro.<br />
Collected on<br />
Koror at old<br />
Japanese<br />
residential<br />
area.<br />
a<br />
Tear<br />
acquired<br />
13 Dec<br />
1972<br />
(1967)<br />
1953<br />
1954<br />
it<br />
Diameter<br />
60<br />
25-21 in<br />
(63.5-<br />
53.3<br />
cm)<br />
19 in<br />
(48.2<br />
cm)<br />
Thickness<br />
11<br />
(at<br />
rim<br />
4.5)<br />
Hole<br />
diameter<br />
9<br />
4 in<br />
(10.2<br />
cm)<br />
3^in<br />
(8.9<br />
cm)<br />
Value at<br />
time <strong>of</strong><br />
acquisition<br />
_<br />
Surface<br />
Smooth,<br />
stepped,<br />
broken<br />
when<br />
being<br />
unloaded<br />
from<br />
Palau<br />
Islander<br />
onto<br />
Guam<br />
Fragments<br />
<strong>of</strong> broken<br />
rai<br />
Broken,}i<br />
<strong>of</strong> rim<br />
missing
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