Notes and Sources Cited:
[1] Eric Metzgar, Arts of Micronesia, 1987. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, presented at FHP Hippodrome Gallery, Long Beach, California, March–June 1987, p. 13.
[2] Eric Metzgar, Islands in the Storm—Preview #2. Video, Triton Films, work in progress.
[3] Email communication with Vicente M. Diaz, April 23, 2020; John H. Brandt, “By Dunung and Bouj,” Natural History 72 (February 1963): pp. 26–28; and Hans Damm and Ernst Sarfert (1935), “Inseln um Truk: Polowat, Hok, und Satawal.” Based on the notes of Ernst Sarfert and Paul Hambruch. Georg Thilenius, ed., Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition 1908–1910, II, B, VI, 2. Hamburg: Friederichsen, De Gruyter & Co, p. 14.
[4] Email communication with Vicente M. Diaz, April 23, 2020.
[5] Email communication with Eric Metzgar, April 23, 2020.
[6] Udo Horstmann and Klaus Maaz, “I pierce the sky’s eye” (Weather incantation in Micronesia), Art Tribal 9 (Autumn 2005): p. 77; Metzgar, Arts of Micronesia, p. 7; and Eric Metzgar, Traditional Education in Micronesia: A Case Study of Lamotrek Atoll with Comparative Analysis of the Literature on the Trukic Continuum (PhD diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 2008), revised for PDF internet pagination from original 1991 monogram, p. 270–271.
[7] Augustin F. Krämer (1937) "Zentralkarolinen: Lamotrek-Gruppe, Oleai, Feis." Georg Thilenius, ed., Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition 1908-1910, II,B,X,1. Hamburg: Friederichsen, De Gruyter & Company, p. 156; Metzgar, Arts of Micronesia, p. 7.
[8] Email correspondence with Eric Metzgar, April 23, 2020. Osonifei are currently known in the islands west of Namonuito Atoll, between Chuuk and Yap as hosilifei (Lamotrek Atoll) or gosilifei (Woleai Atoll), commonly abbreviated to hos and gos respectively.
[9] Metzgar, Traditional Education in Micronesia: A Case Study of Lamotrek Atoll with Comparative Analysis of the Literature on the Trukic Continuum, p. 270.
[10] Udo Horstmann and Klaus Maaz, “I pierce the sky’s eye” (Weather incantation in Micronesia), Art Tribal 9 (Autumn 2005): p. 74.
[11] Pius “Mau” Piailug (1932–2010), master Satawalese navigator, quoted in “Mau Piailug, One of the Last Wayfinders, Followed the Stars to Tahiti,” Adventure Journal, March 15, 2019, adventure-journal.com/2019/03/mau-piailug-one-of-the-last-wayfinders-followed-the-stars-to-tahiti
[12] “From Sea and Shore: Auxiliary Schooner Queen of the Isles Arrives from Carolines,” The San Francisco Call, May 28, 1900, p. 5.
[13] Ibid.
[14] “Tidal Waves Sweep the Caroline Group: The Island of St. Augustine Half Washed Away and the Natives Rescued on the Verge of Starvation,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 28, 1899. p. 1.
[15] American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, The Missionary Herald, vol. XCV (Boston: Beacon Press, 1899), p. 176; and “One White Woman on a Cannibal Island.” San Francisco Examiner, Sunday, October 23, 1904, p. 48.
[16] “Tidal Waves Sweep the Caroline Group: The Island of St. Augustine Half Washed Away and the Natives Rescued on the Verge of Starvation,” San Francisco Chronicle, p. 1.
[17] The San Francisco Examiner, Sunday, October 23, 1904, p. 48.
[18] Ibid.