No one knows exactly how the people of Nan Madol created this royal capital made of giant stones.
Micronesia
Making do with local materials, the I-Kiribati tailored armor from coconut fiber and wore porcupine-fish helmets.
Kiribati armor
Master sailors fashioned these maps from sticks and cowrie shells, registering relationships between land and sea.
Navigation Chart, Marshall Islands
The first Europeans to collect these sculptures judged them coarse and clumsy, but Giacometti and Moore disagreed.