Footnotes

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In the perception of the Marshallese, a hermit crab is also a lowly animal, an insignificant creature, living in a cast-off shell and scavenging for food along the sea shore. [back]

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The tale was largely for children, as an entertaining story, but the ending holds a moral, so the tale had a second purpose: to teach appropriate social codes. [back]