The island of Palau, approx. 365 mi. south of Guam, is the center of carving and storytelling in Micronesian. From 1969 through 1976, the Kagles bought over 4000 storyboards from artists' studios in Palau and Guam. When returning to the states, they kept only the "best of the best" of Osiik, Ngirabuuch, Sbal, Bernadino, Baris and Ruimd, six masters of Palau.
top: Demi of Airai, Palau
by Ngirabuuch
30 1/3" (77.5 cm) x 11 1/4" (28.6 cm)
Price: $450.00
middle: Great Snake of Babeldorf
by Bernadino Rdulaol
48" (122 cm) x 13 3/4" (34.9 cm)
Price: $600.00
bottom: Early Micronesian Board: Battle Scene
30"(70.2 cm) x 6" (15.2 cm)
Price: $600.00
Demi of Airai, Palau (1975)
When carving was revitalized in the 1940s, Ngirabuuch was one
of the first artists trained in old tradition.
by Ngirabuuch
30 1/3" (77.5 cm) x 11 1/4" (11 1/4 cm)
Price: $450.00
Bai (in the style of 1958)
Sbal Francisco created thousands of colored carved boards from
1969-76 and the Kagles bought most of them, trading and selling
some, and keeping the best for their collection.
by Sbal Francisco, signed
24" (61.0 cm) x 11" (22.9 cm)
Price: $300.00
Fish and "Turtle Story" (1973)
by Sbal Francisco
38" (96.4 cm) x 14" (35.5 cm)
Price: $750.00
Tebang (Boat in Taro Patch)
1973
18 1/2" (45.9 cm) x 11 3/4" (24.9 cm)
painted shaped carved storyboard
Price: $450.00
Yapese Money of Ngerot (1955)
64" (162.5 cm) x 10 1/2" (26.6 cm)
in the style of Osiik
Price: $750.00
Breadfruit Tree of Ngibtal (1974)
by Bernadino Rhulaol
16" (40.6 cm) x 24" (61.0 cm)
Price: $300.00
Melachutcnachan (1975)
by Sbal Francisco
19" (48.2 cm) x 8" (20.3 cm)
Price: $250.00
Six Major Watercolors by the Seventh Master of Palau, Charlie
Gibbons, who is the only rubak, chief or master, working in
the Western tradition on famous Palauan stories, orally-passed
down through history.
Top: Magic People and First Bai
20" (50.8cm) x 16" (40.6cm)
Middle: Feast at the Bai in Palau
( see detail below )
16" (40.6cm) x 14" (35.5cm)
Bottom: Yapese Money-Palau
20" (50.8cm) x 15"(38.0cm)
Watercolor
Price: $1500.00 each
Feast at the Bai in Palau
In each major Palau village the main building, many times at the
edge of the village, is the bai, a men's meeting house richly
decorated. Around the village grow the most important Palauan
food plants, such as: coconut palm, betelnut palm, three kinds
of taro, breadfruit, pangi, citrus trees, Eugenia trees and bananas.
Elaborate preparations were made by the village women for feasts
which included hundreds of guests.
16" (40.6cm) x 14" (35.5cm)
Watercolor
Price: $1500.00
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