Marshall Islands stick chart, Rebbelib type.
Title and date supplied by cataloger. Model housed in a cloth covered box with a clear plastic cover. Square rebbelib used by the Marshallese to navigate the Pacific Ocean by canoe off the coast of the Marshall Islands. Indicates sailing directions for atolls and islands in both the Ratak (eastern) and Ralik (western) chains of the Marshall Islands. Seashells depict the atoll and island locations. Atoll and island names are typed on strips of paper which are glued onto the wooden sticks. Each straight stick represents regular currents or waves around the low-lying atolls while the curved sticks depict ocean swells.
- Date
- 1920
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- chart
- Original size
- 10,966 × 10,176 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 80 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-80-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"Marshall Islands stick chart, Rebbelib type." (1920). Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marshall_Islands_stick_chart,_Rebbelib_type._LOC_2010586182.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 17999.
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