Tobi Then: Ifiri Mosuwe

Ifiri Mosuwe 


Spirit Boat

Watercolor by E. Kramer,
Plate 1  Eilers, 1936.


Thoughts about Mosuwe by Peter Black

Old Stories

The legend of Ramoparuhe
Possible Fais origin for Ramoparuhe.

Archaeology of TobiTobi Island Artifacts by Peter Black, D. Osborne and Patricio M.  Appendix 7 to Douglas Osborne, Archaeological Test Excavations, Palau Islands, 1968-1969.  Micronesica: Supplement 1,1979, pp. 349-353.

StoneworTobi Stone Figurine  Tobi Stone Figurine
Photographs by Douglas Osborne

In 2007 Sandra Purton drew the Tobi Stone Figurine in its case at the Belau National Museum, Koror, Palau.

Tobi Stone Figurine drawn by Sandra Purton
Drawing by Sandra Purton

The Archaelogy of the Palau Islands: An Intensive Survey.   Introduction & Chapter 1 (The Southern Islands) by Douglas Osborne. Bishop Museum, Bulletin 230. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1966.

Illustrations
drawn by members of the Thilenius expedition in 1908-1910, taken from Eilers, Anneliese, Westkarolinen:  Tobi und Ngulu.  Ergebnisse der Sudsee-expedition 1908-1910 (II B9, Part I.).  G. Thilenius, ed.  Hamburg:  Friederichsen, De Gruyter & Co. m.b.H., 1936.   

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