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Re:Inuit Cartography: Wooden Coastline Maps That Fit in a Mi... by harlanlewis on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @01:30AM (#11525074)
I'd never seen Polynesian stick charts before, they're incredible. Thanks for sharing!
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Re:Inuit Cartography: Wooden Coastline Maps That Fit in a Mi... by jonah on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @02:02AM (#11525152)
You may like this article then. "The Secrets of the Wave Pilots"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11320127

"...the Marshallese use stick charts, wood frames crosshatched like dream catchers to represent swells coming from four cardinal directions, with shells woven in to symbolize the position of the atolls."

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