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uate students and four Marshalle qgticts offer professional collections
employees of the Trust Territo which are available for appropriate
Government together learned fie
Beginning on Saipan, these collectechniques and community researe Por
jjons are being indexed in a union
methods in the Marshalls. The result catalog under a program funded by
of the program were the subject
ff Tite Hi of the Library Services and
1e Laura Report: A Field Report
“The
FConstruction Act.
Training and Research in Majuro Atoll
Marshal] Islands,” issued b
Indigenous Art and Culture
Univer
sity of Hawaii. A similar ot
gram was held in Truk in the summef
Except in Palau District, no specific
of 1968.
F orvanization exists for the purpose of
<tering and preserving indigenous art
The Stanford Research Institute.
Museum AssoAe
The PalauMuse
calt
working under contract to the True and culture. y
ciation is actively building a collection
Territory Administration, compl
e teq
of ancient Palauan artifacts. The Palau
an educational research project in thet
Congress annually appropriates money
Territory. The final report,
Planning ! to aid development of the museum.
Jor Education and Manpowerin Micro.
4
nesi@,
was published in Decembet
In other districts, Peace Corps
1967.
F Volunteers, youth and women’s organ“Be oaetions,
An agricultural economist from
the
University of Hawaii conducted
anf
Orientation study for possible estah§
lishment of a 2-year agriculture
fieldz
and social scientists have
contributed in various ways to encour-
aging. preservation of traditional art
and handicraft, music, dance, and folklore. Volunteers have been especially
research program in coconut,
vegetablek active in encouraging production of
crop, and livestock production in
the
Territory.
focal handicraft, and, in at least one
district, have opened a shop for the
sale of traditional handicraft items.
Plans are continuing for establish (ther privately operated shops on
ment of a marine biological
research E Guam, Kwajalein, Palau, and Saipan
laboratory in Palau. For details,
see encourage local craftsmen to copy and
Part VI, Section 4, Chapter5.
unprove traditional crafts and designs.
Libraries
Traditional music in Micronesia has
almost disappeared except in Yap and
School libraries and library services
¥ the outer islands of the Carolines, and
for the public are discussed in
Part
VIII, Chapter 1.
The library of the Congress of
Micronesia and the collections in the
offices of the High Commissioner
&
contain important professional and &
technical works used for reference
and
Tesearch on Micronesia, On a_ lesser
scale, the offices ofdistrict administra
- —
tors and departmental libraries in
the
Part VII[—Educational Advancement
i. limited today almost entirely to
chants sung on various occasions. The
Inost common traditional musical
instruments are the nose flute and
drums; only a few individuals canstill
play
these old musical instruments.
Harmonicas, guitars, and Western band
mstiuments are the rule today. Vocal
ind instrumental music, both religious
aud secular, are common on most
ishinds and reflect the Spanish,
Scrman, Japanese, and American
Hiscal Year [968
cultures with which Micronesians have
come in contact.
Traditional dance is encouraged in
community programs and elders and
older students
frequently
teach
younger people. In a few areas, as in
Yap District, dancing persists in its
traditional form.
Historic Sites and Retics
In 1965, a two-man team from the
U.S. National Park Service visited the
Territory to help formulate a territorial parks program. Partly as a result
of the team’s recommendations, the
Third Regular Session of the Congress
of Micronesia took a major step in this
direction by enacting Public Law No.
3-34, which establishes an Historic
Sites Commission to advise on matters
relating to territorial parks and to the
restoration, reconstruction, conservation, preservation, and general admin-
istration of historic and archaeologic
sites, buildings, and properties in the
Trust Territory. The Commission, not
to exceed Il members, is to be
appointed by the High Commissioner.
The Commission’s goals are to restore
and preserve significant historic sites,
buildings, and objects for public use.
Related to this work was the creation, pursuant to House Resolution 34
of the Third Regular Session, of a
Special Nan Madoi Committee to
investigate the legal status of the Territory’s best-preserved ancient ruins in
Ponape District. The Special Committee will report its findings to the
Congress of Micronesia.
Publications and Printing
The Trust Territory Print Shop,
formerly
designated “Publications
Office,”
1966.
was
established
in
March
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