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Page 275 - Volume Challenge- 2014 World Cruise, - Yap, Micronesia

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those are some might big "coins"

March 31, 2016

I had been wondering about theft, as well! So cool!

March 31, 2016

Now that's interesting! I had never heard about this before :)

March 30, 2016

Thank for explaining the stone money. I am learning even more! So interesting!

March 25, 2016

Interesting! If you stole someone's money, where would you put it? Certainly not under your mattress. Sorry.

March 25, 2016

I had never heard of stone money before. Very interesting. And yowsa, they are huge!

March 25, 2016

I didn't know about stone money -- that is so interesting! I love reading your journaling!

March 25, 2016

I guess I have been living under a rock but I never heard of stone money before. It intrigues me. The really curious fact is there is so many of them throughout the island. I would guess they move them with a rope through the hole and roll them around. I can't imagine the work that went into making just one of them. Wow!!! Love how you displayed them vertically on the page.

March 25, 2016

wow - can you imagine how heavy that handbag would be! Awesome photos for scale

March 25, 2016

Interesting story.

March 24, 2016

what a crazy story! other cultures are so inteteresting

March 24, 2016

So--what do they buy with the stone money?

March 24, 2016

How very odd. I wonder how they moved it for swapping or trading. It definitely would be very difficult to steal. How far back does the tradition go and who made them? Looks like the pieces might be old. Fascinating!

March 24, 2016

very interesting story!

March 24, 2016

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(I caught the word "community" misspelled above and even thought it is still wrong on the layout posted, its been corrected so it will print with correct spelling. If you see anything else misspelled, please pm me!)

We joined 2 other people and spent part of the day with our taxi-driver who was also playing the part of tour guide and introducing us to life in Yap, Micronesia.

I had heard of stone money but since it is only found on Yap Island in Micronesia, I had never seen any before. I didn't expect it to be so big – some of was bigger than we were with a hole in the middle. Many of the houses had stone money in their front yards and we saw one street with only one house on it which was lined with stone money. The person who owned that house owned this entire row of stone money which lined the road for about a block.

At one time it was used to swap and trade (how they moved it around, I do not know).

Our guide explained to us that if a person has stone money on their property, they are considered to be wealthy. The more stone money they have displayed in front of their house where everyone can see it, the wealthier they are thought to be and the higher position they have in the community.

I asked if the stone money was ever stolen from someone's house and they said that theft of the stone money was never a problem. It would be extremely difficult to pick up a piece and steal it because of the size and weight. Also, since every piece is shaped a little differently, it is all easy to identify. No two pieces of stone money are exactly alike. Our guide said that anyone on the little island could identify all the stone money so if someone stole one, everyone would immediately know who it was stolen from.

I was surprised to see so much stone money! It was everywhere!

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