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MARSHALL ISLANDS: Preserving culture with new technologies

by lorenz on Aug 17, 2004 in technology, culture traditions, Pacific Oceania

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The Alele Museum in the Marshall Islands has joined with the Historical Preservation Office to launch a new internet website, in English and Marshallese. The aim is to make Alele's collection more accessible to students, researchers and the wider public. In the Marshalls, cultural officers are working to protect fragile records of the past, like the De Brum collection, thousands of etched glass plates, with pictures of Micronesia from past centuries. >>continue (link updated)

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