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Marshallese Stick Chart Poster

A Marshallese stick chart made of lashed palm ribs and cowrie shells is displayed against a deep blue background, with the text 'READING THE SWELL' at the top.

Exhibition poster, a Marshallese stick chart seen flat from above, pale palm ribs lashed into curving lattices with small cowrie shells marking the islands, cropped by every edge, on a deep ocean-blue ground, the copy 'Reading the Swell' in a light grotesk at the top. Flat and square-on, no dates or other words, no quotation marks. See more

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