Ilo kar lowaan wot iio in 2022 ilo 1/11/22. Ekar wonmaanlok wot im komman juon special ceremony nan sign e juon MOU iktaan Alele Museum eo im Leadership eo an armij Arno Atoll. Ilo ceremony in ekar pad Hon. Minister Jemi Nashion, im Hon. Minister Jiba B Kabua. Borainwot ekar pad Deputy Secretary ro ruo adaan ilo MOCIA im kobalok Executive Director eo an Alele Wisse Amram, Museum Manager eo, Accountant eo, im landowner ro jen Arno Atoll.
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Students Visit 2021
Lutok Kobban Alele 2021
ALELE BROCHURE
First Day Covers – Philately
Alele Museum published a limited edition of First Day Stamped and Illustrated Envelops for collectors and philatelists.
Various illustrations and stamps series, about 70 different models, some of them accompanied with a description card. Two different sizes of envelop, large are about 241mm x 105mm , small are about 188mm x 100mm.
Illustrations on this website are for display only; the actual envelop you will receive may have small differences.
Limited quantity, price for 1 envelop Stamped with less than $4 ---- $ 4.00 Stamped with $4 or more ------ $ 4.00 + price of stamp(s)
Alele Postal Sub-Station First Day Cover – Jitkelon Mejal
Alele Postal Sub-Station First Day Cover – Wan Kemem
Alele Postal Sub-Station First Day Cover – Kein Aronlan
Alele Postal Sub-Station First Day Cover – Lejonjon
Alele Postal Sub-Station First Day Cover – Wodejipel
Alele Postal Sub-Station First Day Cover and Description Card- Juum Ettor
Lutok Koban Alele 2015
Every year, the last week of September is recognized as the time for Lutok Koban Alele, which means ”the pouring out of all the products, stories, knowledge of Alele (museum). The last Friday of September is a national holiday called “Manit Day” (culture day) and during this day and into the next, traditional competitions are held, such as coconut husking, weaving baskets, various types of races, canoe sail races and canoe paddle races, along with traditional dancing. The photos below illustrate some of the activities on “Manit Day 2015”.
Ready? go!
Canoes of the Marshall Islands
more Joy under the sun
weaving coconut frond
weaving coconut frond
Canoes of the Marshall Islands are racing
Returning from the race
opposite side too
Lutok Koban Alele – 2015
weaving coconut frond
Pull!
Lutok Koban – Returning from the race
weaving coconut frond
Women’s rowing contest
weaving coconut frond
Returning from the race
Coconut unshelling contest – or strength
Canoes of the Marshall Islands on Delap beach
Lulu and Mabel are racing
Lutok Koban Alele 2015 Event
taking a breath
Coconut unshelling contest – with a tool named “droon”
Crowd at the Lutok Koban Alele
Women’s getting ready to race
Photos courtesy Carol Curtis
Exhibit – Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day Photographies
On the occasion of the 61th anniversary of the Bravo test, commemorated in the Marshall Islands as Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day, the Alele Museum has prepared a temporary photography exhibit: Atomic and Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands – 1946-1958.
Jaki-ed Auction in Majuro
Jaki-ed are very finely woven pandanus mats with intricate designs. The skill of weaving these mats has been revived over the past few years through the efforts of the Jaki-ed program sponsored by the University of South Pacific campus in Majuro, Marshall Islands. Every year the University of the South Pacific holds a jaki-ed auction to raise money for the weavers. The jaki-ed on the left (light tan and off-white in color) won first in the show in 2014, and is possibly the finest and smallest weaving seen in the Marshall Islands in the past 80 years or so. Both mats are now on display in the museum and the public library.
The best of the show, a finely woven mat by Elisa Samson from Jabwon, Ailinglaplap, is on the left, the tan and light brown mat and is the finest weaving anyone has seen in the Marshall Islands for many decades.This mat is so fine and soft it could be used as clothing. The other Jaki-Ed is a beautiful mat woven by Elisana Emos from Airok, Ailinglaplap.
Jaki-ed Auction – Marques Hanalei Marzan, Cultural Resource Specialist, Bishop Museum, Hawaii and RMI Museum Curator Carol Curtis sharing their experience at the Jaki-ed Auction
Jaki-ed Auction
Jaki-ed Auction – Marques Hanalei Marzan, Cultural Resource Specialist, Bishop Museum, Hawaii, RMI Museum Carol Curtis, Poete Kathy Jetnil Kijiner
Exhibit – Marshallese Traditional Canoes
May 1st-August 31st, 2000
Among the seaman of the world are sailors of Marshall Islands of the Pacific Ocean. They have always been skillful in Navigation.
The Marshallese people of long ago, spent much time on the water under the open sky. They traveled long distances by canoes without becoming lost. Even at night they knew where they were, for they kept their outrigger canoes pointed to the well-known stars. They knew the group of stars and had their own names for them.
The knowledge of navigation was secret, it was taught by one generation to another only through certain persons. Without the navigator, the people would have been helpless on the ocean.
Today few korkor, tipnol, and walap exist anymore, sailing between atoll is becoming rare. In the Marshall Islands, sailing between islands was common.
The outrigger canoes of the Marshall Islands are such sophisticated and well engineered craft which, combined with one of the most advanced methods of navigation, allowed the Marshallese to voyage long distances. For thousands of years, the outrigger canoe was means of transportation upon which the subsistence economy of the Marshall Islands relied. It has become clear that the traditional sailing canoes of the Marshall Islands do conform with a “modern world” role model in the form of an appropriate technology suited perfectly to the economic of a Pacific Islands lifestyle.
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