File:Community house of Yorlap (Yap Islands) with stone money made in Palau NOAA.jpg

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Description Native home with Yapese money stones indicating great wealth. Stones were mined on Palau and carried by outrigger canoe 300 miles. Money stones are quarried from Aragonite
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Source http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/mvey0120.htm
Author Dr. James P. McVey, NOAA Sea Grant Program

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date/time username dimension file size edit summary
21:50, 13 November 2004 StefKa81 700 x 459 103 kB (Steingeld neben einer traditionellen Behausung auf der Insel Yap)

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October 1971

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current12:50, 24 November 20141,784 × 1,172 (1.45 MB)Rich FarmbroughHigher resolution version from http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/bigs/mvey0120.jpg

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