Special Thanks
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Wooden Relief
Relief wooden carving created for APME Program by Petrus Tiniap. Tiniap is from Sawa village, Asmat, Keenok (tribe group).
"To produce a blackish-brown color, the carver buried in mud for 1 day and then makes the final touch.
*this panel has broken on the top when I was flighted Asmat-Jakarta on July 4, 2025 and repaired it with glue" - John Ohoiwirin, Asmat Artworks document (linked)
Gifted from Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress
Stick Chart
The APME cohort made and presented this Marshallese style navigational stick chart to the program organizers at the end of their in-person exchange. Inspired by charts traditionally used by navigators in the Marshall Islands to understand patterns in ocean conditions such as swells, waves, or wind, this chart diagrams the complicated journeys that each fellow of APME undertook to get to Hawai’i (represented by the plumeria flower).
Stick charts were made and used by the Marshallese to navigate the Pacific Ocean by canoe off the coast of the Marshall Islands. The charts represented major ocean swell patterns and the ways the islands disrupted those patterns, typically determined by sensing disruptions in ocean swells by islanders during sea navigation.
