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Author Marshallese navigators

Date of creation 1800-1950

Mattang

The mattang is an abstract stick chart presentation of how swells refract around an island and meet in a series of nodes. They were used a teaching and mnemonic devices, not for navigation.

Mattang

Image: from the History of Cartography books, Vol 2, Book 3, p.481, courtesy of the Museum fur Volkerkunde, Berlin.

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