Wave charts from the Marshall Islands

I was late to the game on these, but they are remarkable. Imagine reconstructing what are essentially wave rays or wave crests or diffraction patterns (?!) out of sticks after rocking and rolling around your archipelago…

https://daily.jstor.org/marshall-islands-wave-charts/

and thanks to Jamie Pringle for pointing to the MFA collection:


https://collections.mfa.org/objects/408374/navigation-chart?ctx=03e94b18-d867-4f37-a7e1-71eacbfd392c&idx=0

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