The Wedding of Manuel and Julie Flores in Guam, 1964.
SummaryImage is of the wedding of Manuel and Julie Flores in Guam, 1964. The Guam Museum is planning an exhibit in January 2025 that will
Summary
280 years ago, on August 22, 1742, Lord George Anson visited Tinian and was fascinated by the "flying proas," Chamorro canoes that "may run twenty miles an hour for they passed our ships like a bird flying
Lord George Anson visited Tinian and was fascinated by the "flying proas"
280 years ago, on August 22, 1742, Lord George Anson visited Tinian and was fascinated by the “flying proas,” Chamorro canoes that “may run twenty miles an hour for they passed our ships like a bird flying.” Anson captured a CHamoru såkman and had a detailed design of it created prior to ordering the boat destroyed.
His crew made camp near the House of Tåga, the largest known latte site in the Marianas, as seen in this print.
Anson found Tinian to be “exquisitely furnished with the conveniences of life” but was “entirely destitute of inhabitants.”
After the Chamorros were subdued in 1695, the inhabitants of Saipan and Tinian were relocated to Guam, and these northern islands remained uninhabited for about 100 years.
“Ta fa’nå’gue un henerasion asta i otro nu i tiningo’ i taotao-ta.”
“Ta fa’nå’gue un henerasion asta i otro nu i tiningo’ i taotao-ta.” A family mends a talåya’ fishing net near the shoreline in Malesso’, Guam.
Spondylus shells
SummarySpondylus shells carved to make beads were a very important form of body adornment during the Latte period of CHamoru history (800 AD – 1700