Marshall Islands Culture and Society
Marshallese Canoes, Navigation and Stickcharts.
A Select Bibliography

compiled by Dirk H.R. Spennemann





Alessio, Dennis F
1989Report on a tipnol canoe hull made of sheets of C-Flex . Ms. on file, Alele Museum, Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands 96960.

1989The Jalwoj (Jaluit) Malmel. Construction and details of a traditional Marshallese sailing outrigger canoe (tipnol). Waan Aelon Kein Project Report No. 1. Majuro, Marshall Islands: Alele Museum.

1991Traditional measuring, lashing and construction techniques of the outrigger canoes of Namdik (Namorik) Atoll. Waan Aelon Kein Project Report No. 3. Majuro, Marshall Islands: Alele Museum.

1991 The Construction of a Traditional Outrigger Canoe using a Combination of Traditional and Contemporary Materials on Namdik (Namorik) Atoll. Waan Aelon Kein Report No. 4, Ms. on file, Alele Museum, Majro (Majuro), Republic of the Marshall Islands 96960.

1991Traditional and contemporary measuring, lashing and construction techniques of the outrigger canoes of Ailuk Atoll. Waan Aelon Kein Project Report No. 5. Majuro, Marshall Islands: Alele Museum.

1990 The Likiep taburbur. Construction and details of a traditional Marshallese sailing outrigger canoe (tipnol). Waan Aelon Kein Project Report No. 3. Majuro, Marshall Islands: Alele Museum.
Report on the constrcution of a traditional Marshallese outrigger canoe. Contains information on tradtional voyaging and related data.


Alexander, Andre B
1902 Notes on the boats, apparatus and fishing methods employed by the natives of the South Sea Islands. U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries Report for 1901. pp. 741-829.


Ascher, Marcia
1995Models and Maps from the Marshall Islands: A Case in Ethnomathematics. Historia mathematica. 22 (4): 347-nn.


Browning, M.A.
1960Walab im meto: canoes & navigation in the Marshalls. Oceans, 25-38.

Bryan, E.H. jr.
1964Stick charts from the Marshall Islands. Honolulu: Pacific Science Information Centre, Bishop Museum. Mimeographed.

Davenport, W.
1960Marshallese Islands navigational Charts. Imago Mundi. (s'Gravenhage) 15, 19-26.
1964Marshall Islands Cartography. Exposition, the Bulletin of the University Museum of the Univeristy of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 6, 10-13.

de Brum, R
1962Marshallese Navigation (as told to C.R.Olson). Micronesian Reporter 10 (3), 1-10.

Erdland, A.
1914Die Marschall-Insulaner. Anthropos Ethnologische Bibliothek. Münster i.W. Bd. 2, Heft 1.

Faron, Richard S
1989Odyssey of a Marshall Islands Canoe. Field Museum of Natural History bulletin. 60(9): 24-nnn.


Finsch, O.
1887Canoes and Canoebau auf den Marschall Inseln. Verhandlungen der Berliner anthropologischen Gesellschaft XIX.

Franz, F
1971aDas Navigieren mit "Stabkarten" auf den Marschall-Inseln 1 and 2 Führungsblaetter des Museums für Völkerkunde, Abteilung Suedsee. Serie 3, Blatt No. 097a and 097b Berlin: Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz.
Two leaflets accompanying the ethnographic exhibition in Berlin, explaining the Marshallese stick charts. One leaflet (1971a) explains in great detail the functioning of a teaching chart (Waapepe), while the other (1971b) is concerned on a more general level with the other types of stick charts (meto and rebbelip)


Goodenough, W.H.
1951Native astronomy in Micronesia: a rudimentary science. Scientific Monthly 73 (2) 105-110.

Hambruch, P.
1912Die Schiffahrt auf den Karolinen- und Marschall-Inseln. Meereskunde VI. Berlin.

Hines, N.O.
1952The secret of Marshallese sticks.Discovery September-October 1952, pp.18-23.

Hops, A.
1956Über die Einmaligkeit der Marschall-Stabkarten im Stillen Ozean. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 81, 104-110.

Hornell, J
1936The Canoes of Polynesia, Fiji, and Micronesia. Canoes of Oceania.Vol.I. Bernice P.Bishop Museum Special Publication 27. Honolulu: Bernice P.Bishop Museum.


Jenkins, W.S
1946Wartime Canoe Building in the Marshall Islands. American Neptune 6(1), 71-71.


Joyce, T.A.
1908,Note on a native chart from the Marshall Islands in the British Museum. Man VIII

Knappe
1891 Beschreibungen und Erläuterungen des Konsuls Dr. Knappe, von ihm 1885-1889 gemachten Sammlungen. Erfurt 1891.

Krämer, A.
1905Der Haus- und Bootsbau auf den Marshallinseln. Archiv für Anthropologie N.F. III.

Krämer, A. & H.Nevermann
938Ralik-Ratak (Marschall Inseln). In: G.Thilenius (ed.), Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition 1908-1910. II. Ethnographie, B: Mikronesien. Vol. 11: Hamburg: Friedrichsen & de Gruyter.

Laubenfels, M.W. de
1950aOcean currents in the Marshall Islands. Geographical Review 40 (2), 254-259.
1950bNative navigators. Research Reviews (June 1950), Office of Naval Research, pp. 7-12.

Lewis, D.
1972We, the navigators. The ancient art of landfinding in the Pacific. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii.

Lyons, H.
1928The sailing charts of the Marshall Islands. Journal of the Royal GeographicalSociety 72, 325-328.

Motoda, Shigeru
1938On the canoes of Micronesia (Canoe o tazunete, Micronesia no tabi) Japanese Journal of Ethnology 4(2), 302-319.


Nakayama, M. & F.L.Pamp
1974Micronesian Navigation, island empires and traditional concepts of ownership of the sea. Joint Committee on the Law of the Sea, Fifth Congress of Micronesia. 14 Januray 1974. Saipan: Congres of Micronesia.


Oda, T.
1935Charts drawn by the Marshall Islanders [in Japanese]. Globe 25(3), 222-238.

Playdon, G.W.
1967The significance of the Marshallese Stick Charts. Journal of the Institute of Navigation (London)a 20(2), 155-166.

Schück, A.
1902Die Stabkarten der Marschall-Insulaner Hamburg.

Spennemann, D.H.R
1990 The Marshallese and Eneenkio: a review of 19th century European observations. A Report presented to the Special Commission on Eneenkio (Wake Island).Enenkio Background Report No. 2. Report prepared for the Special Commission on Eneen-Kio (Wake Island). Majuro: Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

1990 Marshallese on Eneen-kio: Evidence from oral traditions, biogeography and history. Eneen-kio Background Report No. 6. Report prepared for the Special Commission on Eneen-Kio (Wake Island). Majuro: Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

1990 The cessation of Marshallese voyages to Eneeen-Kio. Eneen-kio Background Report No. 7. Report prepared for the Special Commission on Eneen-Kio (Wake Island). Majuro: Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


Winkler
1899On sea charts formerly used in the Marshall Islands. Annual Report of the Smithonian Institution.a 1899. Pp. 487-509.
1899über die in früheren Zeiten in den Marschall-Inseln gebrauchten Seekarten. Marine Rundschau a1898.

Wright, C.H
1948Sailing canoes of the Marshall Islands. U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 74 (550), 1529-1531.




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