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October 21, 2015

Enewetak walap

Here's some stuff about the Enewetak walap built by Dennis Alessio and others on Majuro Atoll in 1992.  Will put up more as I can gather it up.

Short video clip here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMe_xsSL6oQ



This, I believe, is their home site, Waan Aelon Kein:
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/garyd/walap.html

And here is Dirk H.R. Spennemann's Digital Micronesia article on it:
http://marshall.csu.edu.au/Marshalls/html/culture/Enewetak_Walap.html

Here's a good illustration on a stamp:




Illustration by Herb Kane