I unfortunately couldn't help, but I hope somebody on ANLANG or ESFO
help with the needed. information. The stick maps he means, I think,
are Micronesian and Polynbesian, rather than Melanesian. But perhaps
there are also Melanbesian ones?
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> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:43:27 -0400
> From: "Douglas B. Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Organization: Museum of Science
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> Subject: pacific stick charts and maps
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> ........ I was unable to locate the information which I had come in
> search for in the first place: to learn more about Melanesian (?) stick
> maps and charts, which I understand were devised as traditional
> navigation teaching aids.  Can you point me in the right direction?  I
> would be particularly interested in images of these maps.
>
> Thank you for your help.