Pacific Traditions Gallery - Marshallese Arts & Nuclear Exhibit

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Pacific Traditions Gallery - Marshallese Arts & Nuclear Exhibit
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Type: Exhibit
Date: Friday - 8/3/2007
Time: 5PM - 9PM
Location:
19 N. Pauahi Street
Chinatown
(808) 741-4612
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PACIFIC TRADITIONS GALLERY
“Marshallese Arts & Nuclear Exhibit”

August is Nuclear-Free Month at the Pacific Traditions Gallery

The Pacific Traditions Gallery proudly presents the arts of the people of the Marshall Islands.

It is the month when we remember the horrors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 62 years ago. Therefore we are going to take this opportunity to celebrate the people of the Marshall Islands and Micronesia who have paid the human cost of the 76 United States' atomic/nuclear bombing in the Pacific.

(image 1) - Mrs. Vandermyden, a recent arrival from the Marshall Islands wearing a handmade Marshallese "wut" ("flower"), a type of head lei. Most of these items are woven from coconut and pandanus leaf fibers.

(image 2) - A hand-woven basket of flowers

(image 3) - This is a Replica of ancient Marshallese "stick-charts" They were used to instruct navigators in the wave patterns that signaled individual islands and groups of islands. The Marshallese are superb seafarers who sailed far. They are as much at home at sea than at Aelon Kein Ad, "the atolls”.

They know other islands and several small shoals and patch reefs outside of the Islands of Ralik and Ratak. Most of the seamarks are known from traditions and can be identified with known shoals and reefs. All the Armij Aelon Kein, know them well.

(image 4) - Two shell "marmars" (leis)

(image 5) - A book bag -- made for a bible and hymnal, but these can of course be adapted to different sizes of purses and bags.

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Pacific Traditions Gallery - Marshallese Arts & Nuclear Exhibit

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