A Survey of Cultural Resources on Namdik Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands

Mead, Leslie; Frank, Langinbo; Langmoir, Frederick

From the Introduction: "This report documents the results of a cultural resources identification survey conducted in July of 2001 on Namdik Atoll. The field documents, maps, drawings, and GIS survey data are housed at the Republic of the Marshall Islands Historic Preservation Office, Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. The recordings and videotapes associated with the project are housed at the Alele Museum, Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. The Namdik Survey is part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands Historic Preservation Office's integrated program to survey the cultural resources of all the Marshall Islands. This program was begun in 1992 and has continued in subsequent years... The primary goal of this project was to collect base-line data on the cultural resources associated with the prehistoric, traditional, historic period occupations of Namdik Atoll. To identify these resources two methods were used. The first involved the videotaping and recording of traditional stories and oral histories associated with the atoll. The second was to visit and document these sites identified by informants and through previous research in the historic documentation. A secondary goal of the project was to educate the inhabitants of the atoll in the importance of identifying, protecting, and preserving the sites associated with the past. To accomplish the second goal, Langnbo Frank undertook a series of informal discussions with local leaders and Leslie Mead undertook a more formal training session of a few members of the local population to demonstrate methods of identifying and documenting the sites." Project funding was provided in part by a Historic Preservation Fund grant to the Republic of the Marshall Islands Historic Preservation Office, Ministry of Internal Affairs, administered by the Pacific West Regional Office, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

A Survey of Cultural Resources on Namdik Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands

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