Storyboard
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Mar 1998
label: Collection Date
content: 1969 to 1974
name: label: Collector
content: Mary V. Trent
label: Donor Name
content: Mary V. Trent
notes: label: Notes
content: RECTANGULAR SHAPED PIECE OF WOOD W/ SCENE CARVED ON ONE SIDE. CARVING DEPICTS 10 FIGURES, 2 MEN'S HOUSES (BAI), 3 PIECES OF STONE MONEY, BOAT, RIVER AND TREES. BACK SIDE UNCARVED AND HAS PAPER TAPED ON TO IT. PAPER READS: " BALANG RA REBELUULECHAB - YAPESE MONEY': THERE ARE MANY STORIES CONNECTED WITH THE ERA DURING WHICH THE YAPESE CAME IN THEIR LARGE CANOES TO MINE THEIR LARGE PIECES OF LIMESTONE MONEY FROM THE CAVES OF PALAU. MOST STORYBOARDS SIMPLY DEPICT THE SEVERAL MEN NECESSARY TO CARRY ONE OF THE LARGE STONE CIRCLES. SOME SHOW DECAPITATED HEADS AND THE LIKE SUGGESTING THE BLOODY ERA IN PALAUAN HISTORY DURING WHICH MINING TOOK PLACE. MOST MINING OCCURRED DURING THE MIDDLE AND LATE 19TH CENTURY AFTER EUROPEAN CONTACT AND THE INTRODUCTION OF ARMS HAD CORRUPTED THE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND LENT A NEW UNETHICAL CHARACTER TO VILLAGE FEUDING."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Palau, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Palauan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416128
label: USNM Number
content: E428749-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Storyboard
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 71.8 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 24 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 2 cm