The island of stone money : Uap of the Carolines

by William Henry Furness

EN·~4 hours·18 chapters

Chapters

18 total

THE ISLAND OF STONE MONEY

0:56

ILLUSTRATIONS

1:11

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY

9:35

CHAPTER II NATIVE HOUSES

15:56

CHAPTER III BACHELORS’ HOUSES

21:40

CHAPTER IV COSTUME AND ADORNMENTS

13:24

CHAPTER V SONGS AND INCANTATIONS

13:26

CHAPTER VI DANCE AND POSTURE SONGS

10:41

CHAPTER VII MONEY AND CURRENCY

16:13

CHAPTER VIII UAP FRIENDSHIPS

38:01

Description

Illustrated with photographs by the author.

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Duration

~4 hours (245K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910.

Credits

Peter Becker, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

Jan 30, 2024

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72830

Subjects

Yapese language Yap (Micronesia)DU

About the author

William Henry Furness

1866–1920

A Philadelphia physician turned explorer, he wrote vivid accounts of the Pacific and Borneo based on firsthand travel and observation. His books helped introduce many Western readers to the cultures, objects, and customs he encountered abroad.

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