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Palau--History--Pictorial works;Palau--Description and travel;Outrigger canoes

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Palauan standing in an outrigger canoe, March 14, 1948

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: I-69
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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Young Palauan man standing in an outrigger canoe at the upper end of tidewater in the mainstream below Ngebuked, a village along the narrow part of Babelthuap Island north of Ngardmau. Six people were to travel in the canoe."

Dates: March 14, 1948

Ralph McCracken, Melliemarang, and Roy Simonson in an outrigger canoe, March 16, 1948

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: I-70
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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Ralph McCracken, Melliemarang, and I in the outrigger canoe we used in going from the M dock in Koror to Ulkthapel and Aurepushakaru Island to look at the limestone. Arakabesan Island in the distant background."

Dates: March 16, 1948